Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building and Centenary Fever

317 Pages·2014·4.719 MB·English

by  Joep Leerssen, Ann Rigney (eds.)

Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Also by Joep Leerssen
NATIONAL THOUGHT IN EUROPE (2008)
IMAGOLOGY (with Manfred Beller, 2007)
Also by Ann Rigney
THE AFTERLIVES OF WALTER SCOTT (2012)
IMPERFECT HISTORIES (2001)
Commemorating Writers in
Nineteenth-Century Europe
Nation-Building and Centenary Fever
Edited by
Joep Leerssen
Professor of European Studies, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
and
Ann Rigney
Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Selection, introduction and editorial matter © Joep Leerssen and
Ann Rigney 2014
Individual chapters © Contributors 2014
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Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgements xii
Notes on the Contributors xiii
Introduction: Fanning out from Shakespeare 1
Ann Rigney and Joep Leerssen
1 Schiller 1859: Literary Historicism and
Readership Mobilization 24
Joep Leerssen
2 Burns 1859: Embodied Communities and
Transnational Federation 40
Ann Rigney
3 Scott 1871: Celebration as Cultural Diplomacy 65
Ann Rigney
4 Moore 1879: Ireland, America, Australia 88
Ronan Kelly
5 Dante 1865: The Politics and Limits of Aesthetic Education 102
Mahnaz Yousefzadeh
6 Petrarch 1804–1904: Nation-Building and Glocal Identities 117
Harald Hendrix
7 Petrarch 1874: Pan-National Celebrations and
Provençal Regionalism 134
Francesca Zantedeschi
8 Voltaire 1878: Commemoration and the Creation of Dissent 152
Pierre Boudrot
9 Vondel 1867: Amsterdam–Netherlands, Protestant–Catholic 173
Joep Leerssen
10 Conscience 1883: Between Flanders and Belgium 188
An De Ridder
11 Pushkin 1880: Fedor Dostoevsky Voices the Russian Self-Image 203
Neil Stewart
12 Prešeren 1905: Ritual Afterlives and Slovenian Nationalism 224
Marijan Dovic´
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13 Mácha, Pet fi, Mickiewicz: (Un)wanted Statues
in East-Central Europe 250
John Neubauer
14 Cervantes 1916: Literature as ‘Exquisite Neutrality’ 262
Clara Calvo
15 Whose Camões? Canons, Celebrations, Colonialisms 283
Paulo de Medeiros
Index 295
List of Illustrations
Cover: D ouble statue of Goethe and Schiller (1857), Weimar.
Photograph by Ann Rigney.
1.1 Schiller memorial (1839), Schillerplatz, Stuttgart. Photograph
by Christoph Hoffmann; reproduced under Wikimedia
Commons licence 2.0. 25
1.2 The shade of Schiller exhorting a dejected Germany to be
united. Allegorical engraving by G. Jäger on the occasion of
the Schiller feast, 1859; reproduced by kind permission from
www.goethezeitportal.de. 29
2.1 Procession at Dumfries. Illustrated London News, 5 February
1859; image courtesy of John Weedy, www.iln.org. 43
2.2 Festival at the Crystal Palace, Sydenham. llustrated London
News, 5 February 1859; image courtesy of John Weedy,
www.iln.org. 49
3.1 Scott monument (1840), Edinburgh. Calotype print, 1845, by
David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson; courtesy of National
Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh. 66
3.2 National Festival, Edinburgh. Illustrated London News,
19 August 1871; image courtesy of John Weedy, www.iln.org. 71
4.1 Statue of Thomas Moore (1857), Dublin. Photograph
by Ronan Kelly. 94
5.1 The Dante festival, Santa Croce, Florence, 1865. Contemporary
photograph, courtesy of the Biblioteca Marucelliana, Florence,
F.H.II.9. 104
5.2 Commemorative lithograph of the 1865 Dante festivities in
Florence. Image courtesy of SPIN imagebank, www.spinnet.eu. 111
6.1 Petrarch commemorative column (1804), Fontaine-de-
Vaucluse. Photograph by Harald Hendrix. 122
6.2 Petrarch centenary commemorations in Arquà and Padua.
Le monde illustré, 1 August 1874; private collection of
Harald Hendrix. 125
6.3 The speech of the Italian representative at the Petrarch
centenary commemorations in Avignon. Le monde illustré,
25 July 1874; private collection of Harald Hendrix. 127
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