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Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in "die Gartenlaube," 1853-1900

Popularizing the Nation: Audience, Representation, and the Production of Identity in "die Gartenlaube," 1853-1900

Belgum, Kirsten

Hardcover

Series: Modern German Culture and Literature

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologyGerman History

ISBN10: 0803212836
ISBN13: 9780803212831
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 1 1998
Pages: 237
Weight: 1.16
Height: 1.01 Width: 5.60 Depth: 9.29
Language: English
Popularizing the Nation examines the intersection of national identity and the popular press in nineteenth-century Germany. Central to Kirsten Belgum's study is the Gartenlaube, a magazine that first appeared in 1853 and became, by the 1870s, the most widely read magazine in Germany. In the midst of the magazine's varied fare was a host of writings that touched on the themes of the German nation and national identity.

In countless articles on culture, politics, landscape, industry, history, and other topics, the Gartenlaube played an influential role in nineteenth-century Germany's larger effort to forge a national identity for itself. In fact, Belgum argues that the search for, and development of, national identity in Germany was inextricably linked to the writings of the Gartenlaube and other popular magazines. Such publications served both as a public repository of mythic memory for the nation and as a source of new national images for a self-consciously modern Germany.

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