Folklore and nationalism in Europe during the long nineteenth century

Folklore and nationalism in Europe during the long nineteenth century / edited by Timothy Baycroft and David Hopkin.

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The growth of nations, national ideologies and the accompanying quest for the ‘authentic’ among ‘the people’ has been a subject of enquiry for many disciplines. Building upon wide-ranging scholarship, this interdisciplinary study seeks to analyse the place of folklore in the long nineteenth century...

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TeilnehmendeR:
Baycroft, Timothy.
Hopkin, David M., 1966-
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:National Cultivation of Culture 4.
Physical Description:1 online resource (439 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Introduction / Timothy Baycroft
  • Oral Epic: The Nation Finds a Voice / Joep Leerssen
  • Shaping the Voice of the People in Nineteenth-Century Operas / Krisztina Lajosi
  • Folk Culture and Nation-Building in the Less than Developed World: A Study on the Visual Culture of Citizenship / Ilia Roubanis
  • Ideas of Folk and Nation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Architecture / Peter Blundell Jones
  • The Regional and the Global: Folk Culture at World’s Fairs and the Reinvention of the Nation / Angela Schwarz
  • Ethnographic Display and Political Narrative: The Salle de France of the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro / Daniel DeGroff
  • Displaying the Arlésienne: Museums, Folklife and Regional Identity in France / Anne Dymond
  • Folklore as a Weapon: National Identity in German-Annexed Alsace, 1890–1914 / Detmar Klein
  • Negotiating Progress and Degeneracy: Irish Antiquaries and the Discovery of the ‘Folk’, 1770–1844 / Clare O’Halloran
  • Narrating Scotland: Andrew Lang’s Coloured Fairy Book Collection, The Gold of Fairnilee, and ‘A Creelfull of Celtic Stories’ / Sara M. Hines
  • England—The Land without Folklore? / Jonathan Roper
  • An Imperialist Folklore? Establishing the Folk-Lore Society in London / Chris Wingfield and Chris Gosden
  • The Ballad Revival and National Literature: Textual Authority and the Invention of Tradition / David Atkinson
  • National Folklore, National Drama and The Creation of Visual National Identity: The Case of Jón Árnason, Sigurður Guðmundsson and Indriði Einarsson in Iceland / Terry Gunnell
  • Oral Traditions and the Making of the Finnish Nation / Pertti Anttonen
  • Sorrowful Folksong and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Finland / Vesa Kurkela
  • Folklore beyond Nationalism: Identity Politics and Scientific Cultures in a New Discipline / David Hopkin
  • Further Reading
  • Index.

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