National Romanticism in Norway / / Oscar J. Falnes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CUP eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Falnes, Oscar J.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1968]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 1968
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 386
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

Investigates Norwegian nationalism during the period of Romanticism through larger works of literature and also contributions to newspapers and periodicals of the mid-century.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Part I. General Background -- Introduction -- I. Certain Aspects of Norwegian Nationalism to 1870 -- II. Romanticism in Norway -- III. The Romanticist Interest in Nationality and Culture -- Part II. The Historians -- IV. A Generation of Non-Professional Historians -- V. The Norwegian Historical School: Keyser and Munch -- VI. A Distinctive National Origin -- VII. The Norrøn Literature -- VIII. The Antipathy Against Denmark and the Danes -- IX. Assembling and Preserving the Records -- X. The Evidence of a Great Medieval Culture -- XI. The Romanticism of the Norwegian Historical School -- Part III. The Folklorists -- XII. The First Folklore Collections -- XIII. The Folk and Fairy Tales -- XIV. The Ballads -- XV. The Romanticism of the Folkorists -- Part IV. The Philologists and the Language Question -- XVI. The Separation from Denmark and the Question of Linguistic Independence -- XVII. Romanticism in Philology -- XVIII. Ivar Aasen and the Landsmaal Program -- XIX. Controversy -- XX. Cleavage -- Part V -- XXI. The Heritage -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index