The Brothers Grimm and the making of German nationalism / / Jakob Norberg.
In the first comprehensive English-language portrait of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm as political thinkers and actors, Jakob Norberg reveals how history's two most famous folklorists envisioned the role of literary and linguistic scholars in defining national identity. Convinced of the political rel...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Humanities |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Humanities
|
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 257 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022). |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
Table of Contents:
- 1. The philologist king: Politics and knowledge in the nationalist era; 2. Folk hatred and folk tales: The nationalist politics of the children- and household tales; 3. The prince of Germany: Wilhelm Grimm and the philologist as redeemer; 4. Love of the fatherland and fatherly love: Jacob Grimm's political thought; 5. The mother tongue at school: Jacob Grimm and the institutions of nation building; 6. The names of the barbarians: The philologist, the tribe, and the empire.