National Romanticism

Formation of National Movements
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-963-7326-60-8
Verlag: Central European University Press

Buch, Englisch, 502 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1090 g

67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy studies exemplify the relation between Romanticism and the national movements in the cultural space ranging from Poland to the Ottoman Empire. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective work was born.The end of the 18th century and first decades of the 19th were in many respects a watershed period in European history. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. In culture a new trend, Romanticism, was successfully asserting itself against Classicism and provided a new key for a growing number of activists to 're-imagine' their national community, reaching beyond the traditional frameworks of identification (such as the 'political nation', regional patriotism, or Christian universalism). The collection focuses on the interplay of Romantic cultural discourses and the shaping of national ideology throughout the 19th century, tracing the patterns of cultural transfer with Western Europe as well as the mimetic competition of national ideologies within the region.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Trencsényi, Balázs

Turda, Marius

Kope&

Kopecek, Michal

Kechriotis, Vangelis

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction, Chapter I: Historicizing the Nation: Images of the Past, Continuity into the Present, Chapter II: Spirit of the Nation, Chapter III: Nationalization of the Space, Chapter IV: The Nation and its Neighbors in Europe, Chapter V: National Heroism: Revolution and Counter-Revolution

Über Autor(innen)

Marius Turda is Professor in 20th Century Central and Eastern European Biomedicine at Oxford Brookes University. He is Director of the Centre for Medical Humanities.

Michal Kopecek is Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, Prague.

Balázs Trencsényi is a Professor at the History Department of Central European University.

Vangelis Kechriotis is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.

Maciej Górny is Research Fellow at the Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw and Centre for Historical Research in Berlin.

Ahmet Ersoy is lecturer at the Department of History, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul.