Nationalism before the nation state : literary constructions of inclusion, exclusion, and self-definition (1756-1871)

Nationalism before the nation state : literary constructions of inclusion, exclusion, and self-definition (1756-1871) /

"Though the German Nation State was only founded in 1871, the German nation had been imagined long before it ever took political shape. Covering the period from the Seven Years' War to the foundation of the German nation, Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of Inclu...

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Other Authors: Paulus, Dagmar (Editor), Pilsworth, Ellen (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2020
Series:National cultivation of culture ; 22.
Subjects:
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
National characteristics, German, in literature.
Nationalism in literature.
National characteristics, German > History.
Nationalism > Germany > History.
Group identity > Germany.
Germany > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Germany > Politics and government > 1789-1900.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Nationalism before the nation state / Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth
  • 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
  • Enlightenment dilemmas : nationalism and war in Rudolph Zacharias Becker's Mildheimisches Liederbuch (1799/1815) / Ellen Pilsworth
  • "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
  • Femininity, nation and nature : Fanny Tarnow's letters to friends from a journey to Petersburg (1819) / Dagmar Paulus
  • Jews for Germany : nineteenth-century Jewish-German intellectuals and the shaping of German national discourse / Anita Bunyan
  • Moses Hess : one socialist proto-Zionist's reception of nationalisms in the nineteenth century / Alex Marshall
  • Nationalism, regionalism, and liberalism in the literary representation of the anti-Napoleonic "wars of liberation," 1813-71 / Dirk Göttsche
  • Learning from France : Ludwig Börne in the 1830s / Ernest Schonfield.

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