Culture and Conflict : Nation-Building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800–1930 / edited by Sine Krogh, Thor J. Mednick, and Karina Lykke Grand.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lykke Grand, Karina, editor.

Mednick, Thor J., editor.

Krogh, Sine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Politics and culture.

Nationalism.

Politics and culture--Scandinavia--History--20th century.

Politics and culture--Scandinavia--History--19th century.

Politics and culture--Denmark--History--20th century.

Politics and culture--Denmark--History--19th century.

Nationalism--Scandinavia--History--20th century.

Nationalism--Scandinavia--History--19th century.

Nationalism--Denmark--History--20th century.

Nationalism--Denmark--History--19th century.

Scandinavia.

Denmark.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Aarhus] : Aarhus University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict - whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture. But what we regard as distinctive today in our cultural heritage or day-to-day cultural experience is deeply rooted in the rich diversity of the national currents of the nineteenth century. Culture and Conflict: Nation-building in Denmark and Scandinavia, 1800-1930 explores the many strands of Danish and Scandinavian culture that helped to shape these cultural identities. The sixteen contributions in this volume analyse how competing national agendas influenced the development of political life as well as literature, the visual arts, and music. A central theme is the cultural conflicts that formed an essential part of nineteenth-century nation-building. Culturally as well as politically, boundaries were drawn up, ideologies were formulated and discussed, and determined attempts were made to suppress divergent cultural voices in the drive to forge strong national or Scandinavian narratives. The result of these conflicts was the enduring cultural struggles and culture wars that form the subject of this volume. The contributions, by scholars from Denmark, Britain, Norway, the United States, and Germany, bring a broad and interdisciplinary perspective to bear on these distinctively Nordic themes. Aimed both at students and at established scholars, the chapters discuss the many facets of nationalism, its cultures, and its countercultures, as well as revisiting the historiography of the 1800-1930 period with a more pluralistic approach."--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction: Denmark as a zone of conflict / John Hutchinson

Competing narratives. Changing contours of a national culture: the Society for the Proper Use of Freedom of Speech, 1835-48 / Claus Moller Jorgensen

Visual republicanism in Copenhagen: Corsaren during the early 1840s / Bertel Nygaard

The challenge of crossing borders: Danish art in Paris in 1855 / Sine Krogh

Race and the politics of portraiture in Caribbean Copenhagen / Bart Pushaw

International and national currents on the Danish music scene, 1860-1930 / Benedikte Brincker

The national past as a zone of conflict in Danish history: conflicting histories of the Danish defeat in 1864 / Rasmus Glenthoj

The shifting contours of Danishness: Agnes Slott-Moller, Kunstergaven, and the duties of nationalism / Thor J. Mednick and Karina Lykke Grand

Cultural inventions. In search of the past: Norse themes and the National Romantic programme of Oscarshall / Knut Ljogodt

'Brought from the Orient, jarred on the journey': Danish Orientalism from Aladdin to Tivoli / Elisabeth Oxfeldt

The making of the Viking horned helmet: uses of the past in the works of Lorenz Frolich, Michael Echter, and Carl Emil Doepler / Martin Brandt Djupdraet

Heinrich Steffens and the perception of Norway in Germany / Peter Fjågesund

The pictorial imaginary: Orientalism and colonialism in Danish visual nation-building of the nineteenth century / Nico Anklam

Literature as auxiliary forces: Scandinavianism, pan-Scandinavian associations, and the transnational dissemination of literature / Ruth Hemstad

A factious monument: The Brave Militia Man After the Victory and the commemoration of a Danish civil war / Rasmus Kjaerboe

Berlin as a site of Danish nation-building: encounters with the Victory Column after the defeat of 1864 / Anna Lena Sandberg.

Notes:

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ISBN:

87-7219-889-3

OCLC:

1354949778