Description
Book SynopsisThis encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. This new revised edition includes more than 100 additional articles, including coverage of memory culture as an aspect of Romantic nationalism and improved coverage of various cultural communities such as Czech, Finnish and Hungarian.
Edited by Joep Leerssen, in cooperation with over 350 authors from dozens of countries, this encyclopedia gives a clear idea of the intricate (transnational and intermedial) networks and entanglements in which all aspects of Romantic Nationalism are connected.
Trade Review"This excellent encyclopedia is an extraordinarily rich source of information on the cultural background of nation-formation. Its sophisticated and effective system of cross-references allows it to go beyond earlier English-language surveys in mapping all European nations comprehensively, regardless of size or power, in both East and West. It is equally even-handed in analysing "Romantic Nationalism", and the 19th-century national movements that were inspired by it, as motivated by an idealistic, Europe-wide cultivation effort for the improvement of national cultures (which I consider to form part of European values)."
-Miroslav Hroch, Prague
"Ambitious in its scope and as far as I can see, impeccable in its execution, the
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe is a major addition to earlier his torical encyclopedias. It will become indispensable to scholars in all the disciplines concerned with either nationalism or romanticism."
-Peter Burke, Cambridge
"This vast encyclopedia is the essential resource for understanding the ethnocultural repertoires that sought to define, indeed to create, the nations of Europe. Leerssen has drawn on a vast network of scholars to present the entire spectrum of cultural production—linguistic, literary, material, and performative—that nineteenth-century Europeans mobilized to express their transcendent sense of national identity. In a climate of renewed nationalist fervor, all those who hope to understand the deep roots of European identity and identities in these challenging times will profit from the
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe."
-Patrick Geary, Princeton
Table of ContentsManual: How to use ERNiE
Thematic articles: Nationalities and cultural fields
Introduction and Survey articles
Individuals: Person articles and Index
Cross-references and article identifiers
Note on transliterations and proper names
Introduction
(Meta)culture, cultural practitioners, and the cultivation of culture
Cultural and Romantic Nationalism: Metaculture into politics
A very long nineteenth century
The European focus
References
Survey articles on cultural currents in Romantic Nationalism
BACKGROUND: Explanatory notes on concepts and terminology
Notes on European nationalisms
Culture, cultivation and Romantic Nationalism
Embodied communities: Sociability, festivals and funerals, conviviality
Conviviality and gender: The salon and their public sphere
1.LANGUAGE: Linguistic reflection and language activism
The importance of language in Romanticism and nationalism
2.TRADITIONS: Immaterial and traditional culture
Ethnography and ethnicity
Mythology
Oral literature and folk music
Manners and customs
Sports and pastimes
3.SIGHT AND SOUND: Musical and visual culture
World Fairs and international exhibitions
Dress and design
Visual arts: History paintings, genre paintings and Academic Romanticism
Architecture
National-classical music
4.TEXTS AND STORIES: Literary and historical culture
Antiquarianism and archeology
History-writing
After Ossian: Editing vernacular classics
The historical novel
Patriotic poetry and verse
Literary realism and the nation
Vernacular translations of the Bible and world classics
Reflecting on national identity: Cultural criticism and activist writing
5.SOCIETY: Sociocultural mobilization
Collective memories, commemorative festivals
Choral societies
National drama and national theatres
Sports/athletics associations
National museums in Europe
Publishing, libraries, book clubs and reading societies
Education
Illustrations
Individuals
Name index
