Editing the nation's memory : textual scholarship and nation-building in nineteenth-century Europe / edited by Dirk Van Hulle and Joep Leerssen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hulle, Dirk van.

Leerssen, Joseph Th. (Joseph Theodoor), 1955-

Series:

European studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; 26.

European studies : an interdisciplinary series in European culture, history and politics ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism, Textual--History--19th century.

Criticism, Textual.

Criticism, Textual--Political aspects--Europe--History--19th century.

Nationalism and literature--Europe--History--19th century.

Nationalism and literature.

Nation-building--Europe--History--19th century.

Nation-building.

Philology, Modern--History--19th century.

Philology, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Textual scholarship and nation-building in nineteenth-century Europe

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

EUROPEAN STUDIES

CONTENTS

Authors in this Volume

Introduction: Philology and the European Construction of National Literatures

TEXTS BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT: EUROPEAN READERSHIPS, NATIONAL ROOTEDNESS

A Darwinian Change in European Editorial Thinking

The Angel of Philology

CASE STUDIES I EMERGING CANONS AROUND THE EUROPEAN RIM

Slovene Text Editions, Slavic Philology and Nation-Building

Inscribing Orality: The First Folklore Editions in the Baltic States

Scania Province Law and Nation-Building in Scandinavia

Welsh Literary History and the Making of 'The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales'

John O'donovan's Edition of the Annals of the Four Masters: An Irish Classic?

After the Lisbon Earthquake: Reassembling History

Medieval Heritage in the Beginnings of Modern Catalan Literature, 1780-1841

The Troubadours and the French State

CASE STUDIES II EUROPEAN CROSS-CURRENTS: ENGLAND, GERMANY AND THE LOW COUNTRIES

The Case of Beowulf

Walther von der Vogelweide and Early-Nineteenth-Century Learning

Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Dutch Medieval Folksong

Private to Public: Book Collecting and Philology in Early-Independent Belgium (1830-1880)

Stages in the Development of Dutch Literary Historicism

The Nation's Canon and the Book Trade.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

94-012-0647-3

1-4356-9526-7

OCLC:

714567384

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206471 DOI