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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817546803321

Titolo

Free access to the past [[electronic resource] ] : romanticism, cultural heritage and the nation / / edited by Lotte Jensen, Joep Leerssen, and Marita Mathijsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2010

ISBN

1-282-78652-0

9786612786525

90-04-18178-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Collana

National cultivation of culture ; ; v. 2

Altri autori (Persone)

JensenLotte <1972->

LeerssenJoseph Th <1955-> (Joseph Theodoor)

MathijsenMarita

Disciplina

940.072

Soggetti

Historiography - Social aspects - Europe

Historicism - Social aspects - Europe

Romanticism - Social aspects - Europe

Cultural property - Social aspects - Europe

Collective memory - Europe

Nationalism - Europe

Europe Historiography

Europe Cultural policy

Europe Social conditions

Europe Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / L. Jensen , J. Leerssen and M. Mathijsen-Verkooijen -- Introduction / Joep Leerssen -- The Melancholy Of History: Disenchantment And The Possibility Of Narrative After The French Revolution / Peter Fritzsche -- The Emancipation Of The Past, As Due To The Revolutionary French Ideology Of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité / Marita Mathijsen -- Modernising The Past: The Life Of The Gauls Under The French Republic / Anne-Marie Thiesse -- From Bökendorf To Berlin: Private Careers, Public Sphere, And How The Past



Changed In Jacob Grimm’s Lifetime / Joep Leerssen -- Public Commemorations And Private Interests: The Politics Of State Funerals In London And Paris, 1806–1810 / Eveline G. Bouwers -- Inventing Literary Heritage: National Consciousness And Editorial Scholarship In Sweden, 1810–1830 / Paula Henrikson -- Literature As Access To The Past: The Rise Of Historical Genres In The Netherlands, 1800–1850 / Lotte Jensen -- Free Access To The History Of Art: Art Reproduction And The Appropriation Of The History Of Art In Nineteenth-Century Culture / R.M. Verhoogt -- Potgieter’s ‘Rijksmuseum’ And The Public Presentation Of Dutch History In The National Museum (1800–1844) / Ellinoor Bergvelt -- Singing Of Conquest? Opera, History, And The Ambiguities Of European Imperialism / Peter Rietbergen -- Nineteenth-Century National Opera And Representations Of The Past In The Public Sphere / Krisztina Lajosi -- ‘Reaping The Harvest Of The Experiment?’ The Government’s Attempt To Train Enlightened Citizens Through History Education In Revolutionary France (1789–1802) / Matthias Meirlaen -- The Past As A Place: Challenging Private Ownership Of History In The United States / Sharon Ann Holt -- Impressed Images/Expressed Experiences: The Historical Imagination Of Politics / Susan Legêne -- Bibliography / L. Jensen , J. Leerssen and M. Mathijsen-Verkooijen -- Index / L. Jensen , J. Leerssen and M. Mathijsen-Verkooijen.

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout Europe, nostalgia and modernization embraced around 1800: the rise of historicism coincided with the emergence of the modern nation-state. Poetical, cultural changes intersected with political, institutional ones: a Romantic taste for medieval or tribal antiquity benefited from a modernization-driven transfer of cultural relics into the public sphere. This process involved the establishment of museums, libraries, archives and university institutes, as well as the dissemination of historical knowledge through text editions, philological studies, historical novels, plays, operas and paintings, monuments and restorations. Antiquaries, philologists and historians produced a new past and rendered history a matter of public, national interest and collective identification. This international and interdisciplinary collection explores the romantic-historicist complexities at the root of the modern nation-state. Contributors are Ellinoor Bergvelt, Eveline G. Bouwers, Peter Fritzsche, Paula Henrikson, Sharon Ann Holt, Lotte Jensen, Krisztina Lajosi, Joep Leerssen, Susanne Legêne, Marita Mathijsen, Mathias Meirlaen, Peter Rietbergen, Anne-Marie Thiesse, and Robert Verhoogt.