Nationalism Before the Nation State

Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756-1871)
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-36683-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: National Cultivation of Culture

Long before it took political shape in the proclamation of the German Empire of 1871, a German nation-state had taken shape in the cultural imagination. Covering the period from the Seven Years’ War to the Reichsgründung of 1871, Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756–1871) explores how the nation was imagined by different groups, at different times, and in connection with other ideologies. Between them the eight chapters in this volume explore the connections between religion, nationalism and patriotism, and individual chapters show how marginalised voices such as women and Jews contributed to discourses on national identity. Finally, the chapters also consider the role of memory in constructing ideas of nationhood.

Contributors are: Johannes Birgfeld, Anita Bunyan, Dirk Göttsche, Caroline Mannweiler, Alex Marshall, Dagmar Paulus, Ellen Pilsworth, and Ernest Schonfield.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Paulus, Dagmar

Weitere Mitwirkende

Paulus, Dagmar

Pilsworth, Ellen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Deutsche Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Nationalism before the Nation State

Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth

Part 1: Eighteenth-Century Debates and Dilemmas

1 Johann Joachim Spalding’s 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth: Church Prayers (Kirchengebete), War Prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the Patriotic and National Discourse in late Eighteenth-Century Germany

Johannes Birgfeld

2 Enlightenment Dilemmas: Nationalism and War in Rudolph Zacharias Becker’s Mildheimisches Liederbuch (1799/1815)

Ellen Pilsworth

Part 2: Germany and “Other” Stories: Defining the Nation from Outside

3 “No sensuous requirement that might not be satisfied here to surfeit”: Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Schlegel Constructing the German Nation in Paris

Caroline Mannweiler

4 Femininity, Nation and Nature: Fanny Tarnow’s Letters to Friends from a Journey to Petersburg (1819)

Dagmar Paulus

Part 3: German-Jewish Voices in the Nationalism Debate

5 Jews for Germany: Nineteenth-Century Jewish-German Intellectuals and the Shaping of German National Discourse

Anita Bunyan

6 Moses Hess: One Socialist Proto-Zionist’s Reception of Nationalisms in the Nineteenth Century

Alex Marshall

Part 4: Looking Back, Looking Forwards: Nineteenth Century Contests of Memory and Progress

7 Nationalism, Regionalism, and Liberalism in the Literary Representation of the Anti-Napoleonic “Wars of Liberation,” 1813–71

Dirk Göttsche

8 Learning from France: Ludwig Börne in the 1830s

Ernest Schonfield

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dagmar Paulus, Ph.D (2013), is a Senior Teaching Fellow in German Studies at University College London, UK. Her first book, Abgesang auf den Helden: Geschichte und Gedächtnispolitik in Wilhelm Raabes historischem Erzählen, was published in 2014.

Ellen Pilsworth, Ph.D. (2017), is Lecturer in German and Translation at the University of Reading. She has published several articles on eighteenth-century German poetry.