Folklore and nationalism in Europe during the long nineteenth century [electronic resource] / edited by Timothy Baycroft and David Hopkin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baycroft, Timothy.

Hopkin, David M., 1966-

Series:

National Cultivation of Culture 4.

National cultivation of culture ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folklore and nationalism--Europe--History--19th century.

Folklore and nationalism.

National characteristics, European--History--19th century.

National characteristics, European.

Philosophy, European--History--19th century.

Philosophy, European.

Europe--Social life and customs--19th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (439 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Leiden, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The growth of nations, national ideologies and the accompanying quest for the ‘authentic’ among ‘the people’ has been a subject of enquiry for many disciplines. Building upon wide-ranging scholarship, this interdisciplinary study seeks to analyse the place of folklore in the long nineteenth century throughout Europe as an important symbol in the growth and development of nations and nationalism, and in particular to see how combining perspectives from History, Literary Studies, Music and Architecture can help provide enhanced and refreshing perspectives on the complex process of nation-building. With a range of detailed case studies drawing upon archival, literary, visual and musical sources as well as material culture, it raises questions about individual countries but also about links and similarities across Europe.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction / Timothy Baycroft

Oral Epic: The Nation Finds a Voice / Joep Leerssen

Shaping the Voice of the People in Nineteenth-Century Operas / Krisztina Lajosi

Folk Culture and Nation-Building in the Less than Developed World: A Study on the Visual Culture of Citizenship / Ilia Roubanis

Ideas of Folk and Nation in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Architecture / Peter Blundell Jones

The Regional and the Global: Folk Culture at World’s Fairs and the Reinvention of the Nation / Angela Schwarz

Ethnographic Display and Political Narrative: The Salle de France of the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro / Daniel DeGroff

Displaying the Arlésienne: Museums, Folklife and Regional Identity in France / Anne Dymond

Folklore as a Weapon: National Identity in German-Annexed Alsace, 1890–1914 / Detmar Klein

Negotiating Progress and Degeneracy: Irish Antiquaries and the Discovery of the ‘Folk’, 1770–1844 / Clare O’Halloran

Narrating Scotland: Andrew Lang’s Coloured Fairy Book Collection, The Gold of Fairnilee, and ‘A Creelfull of Celtic Stories’ / Sara M. Hines

England—The Land without Folklore? / Jonathan Roper

An Imperialist Folklore? Establishing the Folk-Lore Society in London / Chris Wingfield and Chris Gosden

The Ballad Revival and National Literature: Textual Authority and the Invention of Tradition / David Atkinson

National Folklore, National Drama and The Creation of Visual National Identity: The Case of Jón Árnason, Sigurður Guðmundsson and Indriði Einarsson in Iceland / Terry Gunnell

Oral Traditions and the Making of the Finnish Nation / Pertti Anttonen

Sorrowful Folksong and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Finland / Vesa Kurkela

Folklore beyond Nationalism: Identity Politics and Scientific Cultures in a New Discipline / David Hopkin

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-55100-4

9786613863454

90-04-21183-7

OCLC:

809775220

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004211834 DOI