Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-21158-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 810 g

Reihe: National Cultivation of Culture

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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in the history, folklore, literature and music of nineteenth-century Europe in comparative perspective, which will include academics, students, libraries and some members of the educated public.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Baycroft, Timothy

Hopkin, David

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgement
List of illustrations
Notes on Contributors

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 & 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

Conclusion, David Hopkin

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hopkin, David
David Hopkin, PhD (Cambridge) is Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has published extensively on oral culture and the relationship between folklore and history, including Voices of the People in Nineteenth Century France (Cambridge University Press, 2012).

Baycroft, Timothy
Timothy Baycroft, PhD (Cambridge), is Senior Lecturer in French History at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on regionalism and nationalism in France and Europe, as well as border studies, including France: Inventing the Nation (Arnold, 2008).

Timothy Baycroft, PhD (Cambridge), is Senior Lecturer in French History at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on regionalism and nationalism in France and Europe, as well as border studies, including France: Inventing the Nation (Arnold, 2008).

David Hopkin, PhD (Cambridge) is Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has published extensively on oral culture and the relationship between folklore and history, including Voices of the People in Nineteenth Century France (Cambridge University Press, 2012).