Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe New Revised Edition SET

Manual: How to use ERNiE

Thematic articles: Nationalities and cultural fields

Introduction and Survey articles

Individuals: Person articles and Index

Cross-references and article identifiers

Note on transliterations and proper names

Introduction

(Meta)culture, cultural practitioners, and the cultivation of culture

Cultural and Romantic Nationalism: Metaculture into politics

A very long nineteenth century

The European focus

References

Survey articles on cultural currents in Romantic Nationalism

BACKGROUND: Explanatory notes on concepts and terminology

Notes on European nationalisms

Culture, cultivation and Romantic Nationalism

Embodied communities: Sociability, festivals and funerals, conviviality

Conviviality and gender: The salon and their public sphere

1.LANGUAGE: Linguistic reflection and language activism

The importance of language in Romanticism and nationalism

2.TRADITIONS: Immaterial and traditional culture

Ethnography and ethnicity

Mythology

Oral literature and folk music

Manners and customs

Sports and pastimes

3.SIGHT AND SOUND: Musical and visual culture

World Fairs and international exhibitions

Dress and design

Visual arts: History paintings, genre paintings and Academic Romanticism

Architecture

National-classical music

4.TEXTS AND STORIES: Literary and historical culture

Antiquarianism and archeology

History-writing

After Ossian: Editing vernacular classics

The historical novel

Patriotic poetry and verse

Literary realism and the nation

Vernacular translations of the Bible and world classics

Reflecting on national identity: Cultural criticism and activist writing

5.SOCIETY: Sociocultural mobilization

Collective memories, commemorative festivals

Choral societies

National drama and national theatres

Sports/athletics associations

National museums in Europe

Publishing, libraries, book clubs and reading societies

Education

Illustrations

Individuals

Biography

Joep Leerssen holds the Chair of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam. He is the author of many authoritative studies on the relations between literature, historical consciousness and nationalism.

"This excellent encyclopedia is an extraordinarily rich source of information on the cultural background of nation-formation. Its sophisticated and effective system of cross-references allows it to go beyond earlier English-language surveys in mapping all European nations comprehensively, regardless of size or power, in both East and West. It is equally even-handed in analysing "Romantic Nationalism", and the 19th-century national movements that were inspired by it, as motivated by an idealistic, Europe-wide cultivation effort for the improvement of national cultures (which I consider to form part of European values)."

-Miroslav Hroch, Prague

"Ambitious in its scope and as far as I can see, impeccable in its execution, the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe is a major addition to earlier his torical encyclopedias. It will become indispensable to scholars in all the disciplines concerned with either nationalism or romanticism."

-Peter Burke, Cambridge

"This vast encyclopedia is the essential resource for understanding the ethnocultural repertoires that sought to define, indeed to create, the nations of Europe. Leerssen has drawn on a vast network of scholars to present the entire spectrum of cultural production—linguistic, literary, material, and performative—that nineteenth-century Europeans mobilized to express their transcendent sense of national identity. In a climate of renewed nationalist fervor, all those who hope to understand the deep roots of European identity and identities in these challenging times will profit from the Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe."

-Patrick Geary, Princeton