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The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries

The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Britain and the Low Countries

Dunthorne, Hugh
Wintle, Michael

Hardcover

General European HistoryGeneral SociologyHistoriography

ISBN10: 9004233792
ISBN13: 9789004233799
Publisher: Brill
Published: Nov 1 2012
Pages: 270
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The nineteenth century laid the foundations of history as a professional discipline but also popularized and romanticized the subject. National histories were written and state museums founded, while collective memories were created in fiction and drama, art and architecture and through the growth of tourism and the emergence of a heritage industry. The authors of this collection compare Britain, the Netherlands and Belgium, unearthing the ways in which history was conceived and then utilized. They conclude that although nationalistic historicism ruled in all genres, the interaction of the nineteenth century with its imagined past was far richer and more complex, both across national borders and within them.

Contributors include: Niek van Sas, Andrew Mycock, Marnix Beyen, Ellinoor Bergvelt, Joep Leerssen, Joanne Parker, Anna Vaninskaya, Jenny Graham, Tom Verschaffel, Saartje Vanden Borre, Hugh Dunthorne and Michael Wintle.

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