Editing the Nation's Memory: Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Europe (European Studies an Interdisciplinary Series)
ISBN-13:
9789042024847
ISBN-10:
9042024844
Author:
Dirk Van Hulle, Joep Leerssen
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Brill Academic Pub
Format:
Hardcover
317 pages
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ISBN-13:
9789042024847
ISBN-10:
9042024844
Author:
Dirk Van Hulle, Joep Leerssen
Publication date:
2009
Publisher:
Brill Academic Pub
Format:
Hardcover
317 pages
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Editing the Nation's Memory: Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Europe (European Studies an Interdisciplinary Series) (ISBN-13: 9789042024847 and ISBN-10: 9042024844), written by authors
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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, above all, the nation's literary heritage. Everywhere in Europe, foundational texts (including medieval epics and romances, ancient laws and chronicles) were retrieved from their obscure repositories. In new, printed editions, prepared according to the emerging academic standards of textual scholarship, they were appropriated, contested and canonised as public symbols of the nation's permanence in history. This often neglected, but crucially important Europe-wide process of 'editing the nation's memory' involved old states and emerging nations, large and small countries, metropolitan and peripheral regions; it straddled politics, the academic professionalization of textual scholarship and of the human sciences, and literary taste. This collection of studies by outstanding specialists offers a comparative synopsis on exemplary cases from all corners of the European continent.
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