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Book SynopsisA sense of loss is a driving force in most nationalist movements: territorial loss, the loss of traditions, language, national virtues or of a Golden Age. But which emotions charged the construction of loss and how did they change over time? To what objects and bodies did emotions stick? How was the production of loss gendered? Which figures of loss predated nationalist ideology and enabled loss within nationalist discourse? 13 scholars from different backgrounds answer these questions by exploring nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region through political writings, lectures, novels, letters, paintings, and diaries. Contributors are: Eve Annuk, Jenny Bergenmar, Anna Bohlin, Jens Grandell, Heidi Grönstrand, Maciej Janowski, Jules Kielmann, Tiina Kinnunen, Kristina Malmio, Peter Nørgaard Larsen, Martin Olin, Jens Eike Schnall, and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen.
Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Production of Loss Anna Bohlin, Heidi Grönstrand and Tiina Kinnunen The Production of Loss Organising Thought 1 Loss, Emotion, and Transformation of a National Idea: Poland 1795–1815 Maciej Janowski 2 Visions of the Nation and Feelings of Loss in the Works of Steen Steensen Blicher Jens Eike Schnall 3 Neglect, Grief, Revenge: Finland in Swedish Nineteenth-Century Literature Anna Bohlin 4 How a Culture Was Almost Lost: The Sámi in Nineteenth-Century Conceptualizations of Finnish Nationhood Jens Grandell Landscapes and Bodies Activating the Production of Loss 5 Entrenchments and Escape Routes: Expressing a Sense of Loss in Danish Art 1848–1864 Peter Nørgaard Larsen 6 Outreach, Invasion, Displacement: Denmark’s Disputed Southern Borderland as Negotiated through Strategic and Affective Aspects of Space in Novels by Andersen and Bang Bjarne Thorup Thomsen 7 Affective Bodies on the Move: Space, Emotions and Loss in Fredrika Runeberg’s Historical Novel Lady Catharina Boije and her Daughters (1858) Kristina Malmio 8 Carl Larsson’s Spadarfvet, My Little Farmstead (1906): Paradise Regained or Lament for a Disappearing Agrarian Society? Martin Olin 9 Sweden and Algeria in the Travel Writing of Anna Maria Roos, 1905–1909 Jenny Bergenmar Personal Loss and Lived Nationalism 10 “Thus Shall Our Joy Be Solemn, and Our Pain Fruitful”: Nation, Loss and the Power of Emotions in Amalie von Helvig’s Writings Jules Kielmann 11 The Sense of Loss in the Context of Language Disputes in Finland: Reflections on E.F. Jahnsson’s Authorship Heidi Grönstrand 12 Nationalism, Emotions and Loss in Lilli Suburg’s Short Story “Liina” (1877) Eve Annuk 13 Alexandra Gripenberg and Lost Faith in National Belonging Tiina Kinnunen Index
