Editing the nation's memory : : textual scholarship and nation-building in ninteenth-century Europe / / edited by Dirk Van Hulle and Joep Leerssen.

Europe's nation-states emerged from a complex of nineteenth-century developments in which cultural consciousness-raising played a formative role. The nineteenth-century reflection on Europe's national identities involved a re-inventory and revalorisation of the vernacular cultural past and...

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Superior document:European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics ; 26
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 26.
Physical Description:1 online resource (325 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • EUROPEAN STUDIES
  • CONTENTS
  • Authors in this Volume
  • Introduction: Philology and the European Construction of National Literatures
  • TEXTS BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT: EUROPEAN READERSHIPS, NATIONAL ROOTEDNESS
  • A Darwinian Change in European Editorial Thinking
  • The Angel of Philology
  • CASE STUDIES I EMERGING CANONS AROUND THE EUROPEAN RIM
  • Slovene Text Editions, Slavic Philology and Nation-Building
  • Inscribing Orality: The First Folklore Editions in the Baltic States
  • Scania Province Law and Nation-Building in Scandinavia
  • Welsh Literary History and the Making of 'The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales'
  • John O'donovan's Edition of the Annals of the Four Masters: An Irish Classic?
  • After the Lisbon Earthquake: Reassembling History
  • Medieval Heritage in the Beginnings of Modern Catalan Literature, 1780-1841
  • The Troubadours and the French State
  • CASE STUDIES II EUROPEAN CROSS-CURRENTS: ENGLAND, GERMANY AND THE LOW COUNTRIES
  • The Case of Beowulf
  • Walther von der Vogelweide and Early-Nineteenth-Century Learning
  • Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Dutch Medieval Folksong
  • Private to Public: Book Collecting and Philology in Early-Independent Belgium (1830-1880)
  • Stages in the Development of Dutch Literary Historicism
  • The Nation's Canon and the Book Trade.