Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation
Author(s): Lotte Jensen (Editor, Contributor), Joep Leerssen (Editor, Contributor), Marita Mathijsen-Verkooijen (Editor, Contributor), Peter Fritzsche (Contributor), Anne-Marie Thiesse (Contributor), Eveline Gerdina Bouwers (Contributor), Paula Henrikson (Contributor), Robert Verhoogt (Contributor), Ellinoor S. Bergvelt (Contributor), Peter Rietbergen (Contributor), Krisztina Lajosi (Contributor), Matthias Meirlaen (Contributor), Sharon Ann Holt (Contributor), Susan Legêne (Contributor)
Publisher: Brill
Publication Date: February 16, 2010
Edition: 1st
Language: English
Print length: 368 pages
ISBN-10: 900418029X
ISBN-13: 9789004180291
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
Review
This is […] an important volume for anyone interested in understanding the wider social and cultural contexts of folklore study in the nineteenth century―which still often affect our discipline―but also for scholars concerned with the role of nostalgia in culture, modernization, national histories, and cultural heritage. David Elton Gay, Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, January 16, 2012
The second in the series National Cultivation of Culture, […] is an important collection that focuses on changes in attitudes to the past linked to Romanticism and other aspects of development at the cusp of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Based on conference papers, the individual chapters are of great interest […]. Jeremy Black,
European Review of History―Revue Européenne d’Histoire, Vol. 19 No. 3, p. 464-465
…this is a volume with interesting case studies… Maarten Van Ginderachter,
European History Quarterly, Vol. 42 No. 1, p. 165-167
About the Author
Lotte Jensen, Ph.D. (2001) in Literary Studies, University of Amsterdam, is Assistant Professor of Dutch Literary History at the Radboud University Nijmegen. She has published widely in the areas of nineteenth-century Dutch literature, press history, and women authors.
Joep Leerssen, PhD (1986) in Literary Studies, University of Utrecht, is Professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. His research is on national stereotypes, the spread of romantic nationalism, and Irish cultural history.
Marita Mathijsen, Ph.D.(1987) in Literary Studies, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, is Professor of Modern Dutch Literature at the University of Amsterdam. She has published a wide range of books and articles on nineteenth-century literature and is a specialist on textual editing.
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