Scandinavism

Overlapping and Competing Identities in the Nordic World, 1770-1919
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50734-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 787 g

Reihe: Brill

Winner of the 2022 Nordic History Book Award

Despite its failure as a political mobilizer, Scandinavism as a cultural movement would have a great impact on national consciousness-raising in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden by stressing common ethnolinguistic, mythological and historical roots. This cultural vision is traced in 'the Long 19th Century’, specifically in its interactions and overlaps with the various nationally specific manifestations of cultural nationalism. Through an in-depth analysis of an extensive corpus of cultural products – ranging from novels and poetry to public commemorations, painting and street name signs – this book demonstrates that cultural Scandinavism was successful in forging a common pan-Scandinavian identity that supplemented and strengthened national-identity formation in the three nationalities it aimed to unify.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Gerven, Tim van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Skandinavische Literaturen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures, Graphs and Tables

Introduction

Part 1: Imagining Scandinavia

Introduction

1 The Mythology Debates I

The Copenhagen Question of 1800

2 The Mythology Debates II

Discord at the Geatish Society

3 The Mythology Debates III

Finnur Magnússon vs. the Baden Brothers

Part 2: Cultivating Scandinavia

Introduction

4 Sociability: Creating a Scandinavian Public Sphere

5 Language: (No) Translations, Spelling Reform, and Education

6 Textual Culture: Creating a Collective Historical Identity for Scandinavia

7 Visual Culture: Perennial Brotherhood and Visual Silences

8 Performative Culture and Commemorations: Scandinavia Embodied?

Part 3: Challenging Scandinavia

Introduction

9 Articulating Norwegian Identity with and against Scandinavia

10 Norwegian History for the Norwegians!

Reclaiming Norse Antiquity and the 400-Year Night

11 Appropriating Tordenskjold

On the Flexibility of Sites of Memory

Part 4: Ambient Scandinavia

Introduction

12 Still Latent?

Scandinavian History in Literature High and Low

13 History in the Streets

Scandinavia at Street Level?

14 A Valkyrie in the Park

City Planning, Tourism Marketing, and Old Norse Sculpture

By Way of Conclusion

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tim van Gerven, Ph.D. (2020), University of Amsterdam, works as a teacher of modern European history at the same university. His research focuses on European macronationalisms in comparative perspective, with a particular focus on Scandinavism, Pan-Germanism and Greater Netherlandism.