3rd Edition
National Thought in Europe A Cultural History - 3rd Revised Edition
By Joep Leerssen
Copyright 2018
332 Pages
by
Routledge
332 Pages
by
Routledge
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Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism — from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's 'soul'. The belief and ideology of the nation's cultural individuality emerged from a Europe-wide exchange of ideas, often articulated in literature and belles lettres . In the last... Read more
List of Illustrations, Foreword to the Third Edition, Preface, Introduction, Source Traditions, The Politics of National Identity, Identity Rampant, Aftermath and Conclusions: Twentieth-Century Issues, Appendices, Languages, Alphabets, Dialects and Language Politics, Source References, Bibliography, Index
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.
