National Cultivation of Culture

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Joep Leerssen
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John Breuilly
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Katharine Ellis
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Ina Ferris
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This is a peer-reviewed book series that addresses cultural nationalism (and regionalism), and the canonization of cultural traditions, in nineteenth-century Europe.
The "cultivation of culture" ranges from the study of language to language politics; from the edition of ancient documents to the writing of national histories and historical novels; from the proclamation of national-literary programmes to the commemoration of great authors; from folklore studies to folk revivals and from archeology to the establishment of national museums.
Special emphasis is placed on the institutional and political settings for these cultural activities (the professionalization of learning, the emergence of the large-scale reading public, the state centralization of libraries, archives and universities), and on the comparative and dynamic aspects of these processes: exchanges and transfers between generations, between media and between cultural fields, as well as between countries and regions.
This dimension in the development of the European nation-state with its assertion of a cultural heritage and individuality offers a rich theme in the interstice between intellectual, cultural and political history.

Authors are cordially invited to submit proposals and/or full manuscripts to either the series editor Joep Leerssen or the publisher at BRILL, Alessandra Giliberto.

Brill is in full support of Open Access publishing and offers the option to publish your monograph, edited volume, or chapter in Open Access. Our Open Access services are fully compliant with funder requirements. We support Creative Commons licenses. For more information, please visit Brill Open or contact us at openacess@brill.com.
Romantic Nationalism in India
Cultivation of Culture and the Global Circulation of Ideas
Volume 31
978-90-04-69480-4
World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities
International Exhibitions as Cultural Platforms, 1851–1958
Volume 27
978-90-04-50032-7
The Creation of National Identities
Europe, 18th—20th Centuries
Volume 26
978-90-04-49883-9
Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region
The Production of Loss
Volume 25
978-90-04-46732-3
Literary Canon Formation as Nation-Building in Central Europe and the Baltics
19th to Early 20th Century
Volume 24
978-90-04-45771-3
The First World War and the Nationality Question in Europe
Global Impact and Local Dynamics
Volume 23
978-90-04-44224-5
Nationalism before the Nation State
Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756–1871)
Volume 22
978-90-04-42610-8
The Matica and Beyond
Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe
Volume 21
978-90-04-42538-5
The Militant Middle Ages
Contemporary Politics between New Barbarians and Modern Crusaders
Volume 20
978-90-04-41498-3
Northern Myths, Modern Identities
The Nationalisation of Northern Mythologies Since 1800
Volume 19
Editor(s): Simon Halink
978-90-04-39843-6
Great Immortality
Studies on European Cultural Sainthood
Volume 18
978-90-04-39513-8
"Was deutsch und echt..."
Richard Wagner and the Articulation of a German Opera, 1798-1876
Volume 17
978-90-04-24538-9
The Antiquarians of the Nation
Monuments and Language in Nineteenth-Century Roussillon
Volume 16
978-90-04-39027-0
The Harp and the Constitution
Myths of Celtic and Gothic Origin
Volume 11
978-90-04-30638-7
Manufacturing a Past for the Present
Forgery and Authenticity in Medievalist Texts and Objects in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Volume 7
978-90-04-27681-9
Manufacturing Middle Ages
Entangled History of Medievalism in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Volume 6
978-90-04-24487-0
Constructing the Middle Ages
Historiography, Collective Memory and Nation-Building in Luxembourg
Volume 3
978-90-04-21066-0
Free Access to the Past
Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation
Volume 2
978-90-04-18178-6
Inventing Luxembourg
Representations of the Past, Space and Language from the Nineteenth to the Twenty-First Century
Volume 1
978-90-04-18881-5
Joep Leerssen is Professor of Modern European Literature in the Department of European Studies, University of Amsterdam. In addition, he was director of the Huizinga Institute (the Dutch national research institute for cultural history) from 1996 until 2006. He has published widely on cross-national stereotypes and national self-images, and on the links between literature, historical consciousness and nationalism; his book National Thought in Europe: A Cultural History was shortlisted for the Europe Book Prize 2007. He received the Spinoza Award in 2008, which he has applied to the establishment of the Study Platform on Interlocking Nationalisms (SPIN).
Editor-in-Chief
Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam

Editorial Board
John Breuilly, The London School of Economics and Political Science
Katharine Ellis, University of Cambridge
Ina Ferris, University of Ottawa
Patrick J. Geary, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Tom Shippey, Saint Louis University
Anne-Marie Thiesse, CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research)
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