Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe Nation-Building and Centenary Fever
Description
This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.
Keywords
Literary CriticismSemiotics & TheorySocial ScienceHistorySocial HistoryHistoriographyEuropeanEuropeLanguage Arts & DisciplinesLinguisticsHistorical & ComparativeAnthropologyCultural & Social
2014Book
Author(s)Ann Rigney, Joseph Th Leerssen
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK
ISBN9781137412133
LanguageEnglish
