Networks, Narratives and Nations : : Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Nationalism in Modern Europe and Beyond / / ed. by Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez, Marjet Brolsma, Krisztina Lajosi-Moore, Alex Drace-Francis, Guido Snel, Enno Maessen, Marleen Rensen, Jan Rock.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Beller, Manfred,; Breuilly, John,; Burke, Peter,; Connolly, Claire,; Constantine, Mary-Ann,; Dooley, Ann,; Drace-Francis, Alex,; Dunne, Tom,; Ferris, Ina,; Foster, R. F.,; Giolláin, Diarmuid Ó,; Gunnell, Terry,; Hopkin, David,; Hutchinson, John,; Jensen, Lotte,; Kemper, Michael,; Lajosi, Krisztina,; Mathijsen, Marita,; Millas, Hercules,; Pittock, Murray,; Rigney, Ann,; Shippey, Tom,; Storm, Eric,; Thiesse, Anne-Marie,; Tollebeek, Jo,; Trencsényi, Balázs,; Wintle, Michael,
• HerausgeberIn: Brolsma, Marjet,; Drace-Francis, Alex,; Lajosi-Moore, Krisztina,; Maessen, Enno,; Rensen, Marleen,; Rock, Jan,; Rodríguez Pérez, Yolanda,; Snel, Guido,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

Do narratives make nations, and if so, did networks make this happen? The notion that national and other group identities are constructed and sustained by narratives and images has been widely postulated for several decades now. This volume contributes to this debate, with a particular emphasis on t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of illustrations
• Introduction
• Part I National Questions
• 1 National Stereotypes in Early Modern Europe
• 2 Constructed or Primordial?
• 3 Nationalism and the Rhine
• 4 Cultural Nationalism beyond Europe
• Part II Networked Nations
• 5 Firebrand Folklore
• 6 The Nation as a Network
• 7 A Network in Search of an Alternative Modernity
• 8 A Dutch Journal with a European Programme
• Part III Canonicity and Culture
• 9 Cultural Nationalism and the Invention of Dutch Literary Icons
• 10 Colonial Legacies in European Folklore Studies
• 11 The Canonization of the Artisan around 1900
• 12 Sigurður Guðmundsson and Jón Árnason’s Icelandic Folktales
• 13 Songs His Mother Taught Him
• 14 The Genesis of a National Product
• Part IV Historicity and Narrative
• 15 Travelling Westwards
• 16 Finding Oneself within Germania
• 17 The Faces of Crisis
• 18 The Extension of Traditions
• 19 The Buried Tombstone, the Melting Iceberg, and the Random Bullet
• 20 Reconstituting the European Historical Novel in Latin America
• Part V Imagology, Identity and Alterity
• 21 The Shape of Things to Come
• 22 Auto-exoticism and the Irish Colonial Landscape
• 23 Ordinary Eyesight?
• 24 European Constructions of the Asian East in the Novels of John Buchan
• 25 Prerequisites to the Study of “Social Perception”
• 26 Considerations of an Imagined Land
• Acknowledgments
• List of Contributors
• Index