Networks, Narratives and Nations: Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Nationalism in Modern Europe and Beyond

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2022

Networks, Narratives and Nations

Transcultural Approaches to Cultural Nationalism in Modern Europe and Beyond

Edited by: Marjet Brolsma , Alex Drace-Francis , Krisztina Lajosi-Moore , Enno Maessen , Marleen Rensen , Jan Rock , Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez and Guido Snel

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048553266

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About this book

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 the networked, transnational nature of cultural nation-building processes in a comparative European and sometimes extra-European context. It gathers together essays that engage with objects of study ranging from poetry, prose, and political ideas to painting, porcelain, and popular song, and which draw on examples in Icelandic, Arabic, German, Irish, Hungarian, and French, among other languages. The contributors study transcultural phenomena from the medieval and early modern periods through to the modern and postmodern era, frequently challenging conventional periodizations and analytical frameworks based on the idea of the nation-state.

Author / Editor information

Brolsma Marjet :

Marjet Brolsma is Assistant Professor in European Cultural History at the European Studies department of the University of Amsterdam. She has been a research assistant at the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (SPIN), and published on intellectuals and the Great War, national identity discourses and ideas of Europe.Drace-Francis Alex :

Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanian and Balkan social, cultural and literary history; on travel writing and circulation of ideas and images; and on European identity as a whole.Lajosi-Moore Krisztina :

Krisztina Lajosi is Senior Lecturer in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She studies nationalism in a historical perspective. Her publications include Staging the Nation: Opera and Nationalism in 19th-Century Hungary, Choral Societies and Nationalism in Europe, and The Matica and Beyond: Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe.Maessen Enno :

Enno Maessen is lecturer in Political History at the Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University. He works on cultural representations, urban history and the history of contemporary Turkey. Maessen is co-founder of the Turkey Studies Network in the Low Countries.Rensen Marleen :

Marleen Rensen is a senior lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in literary engagement and life writing and has a particular interest in the lives of French and German artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Rock Jan :

Marleen Rensen is a senior lecturer in Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in literary engagement and life writing and has a particular interest in the lives of French and German artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Rodríguez Pérez Yolanda :

Yolanda Rodríguez Pérez is Associate Professor of European Literature and Culture in the Department of European Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She specializes in Spanish-Dutch-Anglo cultural exchanges in the early modern period and beyond. Her last edited volume is Literary Hispanophobia and Hispanophilia in Britain and the Low Countries (1550-1850) (2020)Snel Guido :

Guido Snel is a writer and a senior lecturer teaching in the department of European Studies. He specializes in contemporary European literatures, with a specific focus on Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	7
List of illustrations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Introduction Alex Drace-Francis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part I National Questions
1 National Stereotypes in Early Modern Europe Peter Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
2 Constructed or Primordial? Murray Pittock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
3 Nationalism and the Rhine John Breuilly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	51
4 Cultural Nationalism beyond Europe John Hutchinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Part II Networked Nations
5 Firebrand Folklore Ann Rigney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
6 The Nation as a Network Michael Kemper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	85
7 A Network in Search of an Alternative Modernity Anne-Marie Thiesse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
8 A Dutch Journal with a European Programme Marita Mathijsen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Part III Canonicity and Culture
9 Cultural Nationalism and the Invention of Dutch Literary Icons Lotte Jensen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
10 Colonial Legacies in European Folklore Studies Diarmuid Ó Giolláin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
11 The Canonization of the Artisan around 1900 Eric Storm Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	137
12 Sigurður Guðmundsson and Jón Árnason’s Icelandic Folktales Terry Gunnell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
13 Songs His Mother Taught Him David Hopkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
14 The Genesis of a National Product Jo Tollebeek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Part IV Historicity and Narrative
15 Travelling Westwards Ann Dooley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	187
16 Finding Oneself within Germania Tom Shippey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
17 The Faces of Crisis Balázs Trencsényi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
18 The Extension of Traditions Krisztina Lajosi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
19 The Buried Tombstone, the Melting Iceberg, and the Random Bullet R. F. Foster Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
20 Reconstituting the European Historical Novel in Latin America Ina Ferris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Part V Imagology, Identity and Alterity
21 The Shape of Things to Come Mary-Ann Constantine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
22 Auto-exoticism and the Irish Colonial Landscape Tom Dunne Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
23 Ordinary Eyesight? Claire Connolly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
24 European Constructions of the Asian East in the Novels of John Buchan Michael Wintle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
25 Prerequisites to the Study of “Social Perception” Hercules Millas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
26 Considerations of an Imagined Land Manfred Beller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	313
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	325
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 346
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Coloured Illustrations: 2
Keywords: Europe - Culture - Modernity - Nationalism - Transnationalism

eBook

Published: July 11, 2022
ISBN: 9789048553266