Salmi / Nivala / Sarjala Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-317-30721-1
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions have vital importance to the understanding of this formative period of modern Europe.

The chapters of this volume concentrate on the following themes: What were the sites of culture, civilization and Bildung and how were these sites employed in defining these concepts? What kind of borders did this process of definition and its inherent spatial imagination produce? What were the connecting routes between the supposed centers and peripheries? What were the strategies of envisioning, negotiating and transforming cultural territories in early nineteenth-century Europe?

This book adds new perspectives on ways of approaching spatiality in history by investigating, for example: the decisive role of the French revolution, the persistent interest in classical civilization and its sites, emerging urbanism and the culture of the cities, the changing constellations between centers and peripheries and the colonial extensions, or transfigurations, of culture. It also pays attention to the spatiality of culture as a metaphor, but simultaneously emphasizes the production of space in an era of technological innovation and change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Salmi, Hannu

Nivala, Asko

Sarjala, Jukka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Part I: Bildung, Civilisation and Cultural Space 1. Catastrophic Revolution and the Rise of Bildung Asko Nivala 2. Greek Colonies as the Sites of Classical Civilization in Early Nineteenth-Century Scholarship Janne Tunturi 3. Between Nostalgia and Utopia: The Construction of a Jewish Cultural Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe Cecilie S. Schrøder Simonsen and Jakob Egholm Feldt Part II: Centres and Borderlands 4."No Sadder Place Than This": Spaces of Home, Culture and Nature at the Edge of Civilization in Nineteenth-Century Colonial Greenland Inge Seiding 5. Nordic Travellers Between Centres and Peripheries of European Civilisation Heli Rantala 6. Cartography of Poetry and Knowledge Juhana Saarelainen Part III: Challenging Spatial Boundaries 7. Celebrity Culture, Technology and the Rise of Capitalism Hannu Salmi 8. Charles Dickens and the "Vagabond Savage" Adam Hansen 9. Travelling Through the Urban Space: The Romantic Imagination Jukka Sarjala Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Hannu Salmi is professor of cultural history, University of Turku, Finland.

Asko Nivala is a researcher at the Department of Cultural History, University of Turku, Finland.

Jukka Sarjala is Adjunct Professor (Docent) of the University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities.