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Editing the Nation's Memory. Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Editing the Nation's Memory. Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Publié le par Gabriel Marcoux-Chabot (Source : Site web de la maison d'édition)

VAN HULLE, Dirk et Joep LEERSSEN (dir.), Editing the Nation's Memory. Textual Scholarship and Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Amsterdam / New York, Rodopi (European Studies - An Interdisciplinary Series in European Culture, History and Politics), 2008, 317 p.

ISBN 978-90-420-2484-7

RÉSUMÉ

Europe's nation-states emerged from a complex of nineteenth-centurydevelopments in which cultural consciousness-raising played a formativerole. The nineteenth-century reflection on Europe's national identitiesinvolved a re-inventory and revalorisation of the vernacular culturalpast and, above all, the nation's literary heritage. Everywhere inEurope, foundational texts (including medieval epics and romances,ancient laws and chronicles) were retrieved from their obscurerepositories. In new, printed editions, prepared according to theemerging academic standards of textual scholarship, they wereappropriated, contested and canonised as public symbols of the nation'spermanence in history. This often neglected, but crucially importantEurope-wide process of ‘editing the nation's memory' involved oldstates and emerging nations, large and small countries, metropolitanand peripheral regions; it straddled politics, the academicprofessionalization of textual scholarship and of the human sciences,and literary taste. This collection of studies by outstandingspecialists offers a comparative synopsis on exemplary cases from allcorners of the European continent.

TABLE DES MATIÈRES

Authors in this volume
Joep LEERSSEN: Introduction: Philology and the European Construction of National Literatures
Texts Between Past and Present: European Readerships, National Rootedness
Dirk VAN HULLE: A Darwinian Change in European Editorial Thinking
Geert LERNOUT: The Angel of Philology
Case Studies I: Emerging Canons Around the European Rim
Darko DOLINAR: Slovene Text Editions, Slavic Philology and Nation-Building
Paulius V. SUBACIUS: Inscribing Orality: The First Folklore Editions in the Baltic States
Paula HENRIKSON: Scania Province Law and Nation-Building in Scandinavia
Mary-Ann CONSTANTINE: Welsh Literary History and the Making of ‘The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales'
Bernadette CUNNINGHAM: John O'Donovan's Edition of the Annals of the Four Masters: An Irish Classic?
João DIONÍSIO: After the Lisbon Earthquake: Reassembling History
Magí SUNYER: Medieval Heritage in the Beginnings of Modern Catalan Literature, 1780-1841
Philippe MARTEL: The Troubadours and the French State
Case Studies II: European Cross-Currents: England, Germany and the Low Countries
Tom SHIPPEY: The Case of Beowulf
Thomas BEIN: Walther von der Vogelweide and Early-Nineteenth-Century Learning
Herman BRINKMAN: Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Medieval Dutch Folksong
Jan PAUWELS: Private to Public: Book Collecting and Philology in Early-Independent Belgium (1830-1880)
Marita MATHIJSEN: Stages in the Development of Dutch Literary Historicism
Joep LEERSSEN: The Nation's Canon and the Book Trade