Commemorating Writers In Nineteenth-Century Europe: Nation-Building And Centenary Fever

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.

• • Author: J. Leerssen, A. Rigney
• • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• • Publication Date: Aug 29, 2014
• • Number of Pages: 316 pages
• • Language: English
• • Binding: Hardcover
• • ISBN-10: 1137412135
• • ISBN-13: 9781137412133