1st Edition

Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe

Edited By Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Jukka Sarjala Copyright 2016
210 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

222 Pages 15 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications "culture" and "civilization" entailed. These questions have vital importance to the understanding of this formative period of modern Europe. The... Read more

Introduction  Asko Nivala, Hannu Salmi and Jukka Sarjala  Part I: Bildung, Civilisation and Cultural Space  1. Catastrophic Revolution and the Rise of Romantic Bildung  Asko Nivala  2. Classical Civilisation Confronts Modern Nationalism: Greek Colonies in Early Nineteenth-Century Scholarship  Janne Tunturi  3. Between Nostalgia and Utopia: The Construction of Jewish Cultural Space in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe  Jakob Egholm Feldt and Cecilie S. Schrøder Simonsen  Part II: Centres and Borderlands  4. The Colonial Displacement of Culture: Social Spaces and Boundaries in a Nineteenth-Century Diary from Greenland  Inge Seiding  5. Nordic Travellers Between the Centres and Peripheries of Civilisation  Heli Rantala  6. The Kalevala and the Cartography of Poetry and Knowledge  Juhana Saarelainen  Part III: Challenging Spatial Boundaries  7. Viral Virtuosity and the Itineraries of Celebrity Culture  Hannu Salmi  8. Charles Dickens and the "Vagabond Savage"  Adam Hansen  9. Travelling Through Urban Space: The Romantic Imagination of E. T. A. Hoffmann  Jukka Sarjala  Appendix: Further Reading

Biography

Hannu Salmi is Professor of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland.

Asko Nivala is Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland.

Jukka Sarjala is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Cultural History at the University of Turku, Finland.