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Joep Leerssen
Joep Leerssen
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University of Amsterdam

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Charismatic Nations
A Cultural History of Nationalism in Europe from 1800 to the Present
 , pp. vii - x
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2026
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Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. List of Tables

  3. Acknowledgements

  4. Introduction

    1. The Culture of Nationalism

    2. Cultural Production: Artists and Intellectuals

    3. Dissemination, Canonicity, Remediation

    4. The Self-Distinguishing Nation and the Cultivation of Culture

    5. Culture and the Nation in History

    6. Methodological Nationalism as a Historical Problem

    7. The Nation’s Short History and Long Memory

    8. The Nation as Contingency: Working Definitions

    9. Outline of the Book

  5. Part IMemory and Power

    1. 1The Romantic Spell

      1. Strong Feelings, Deep Memories, Long Distance

        1. The Rhine to Landsberg Prison, 1814–1925

        2. Strasbourg to Casablanca, 1792–1942

        3. Agincourt to D-Day, Novgorod to Leningrad

      2. From Reverence to Charisma

        1. Civic Religion and History-Makers

        2. Hero-Worship: Carlyle to Weber

        3. Charismatic Leaders, Charismatic Nations

      3. ‘Beyond Politics’: The Unpolitical Nation

    2. 2Becoming Something, Unmaking Empires

      1. Versailles, Berlin, Belfast, Odessa

      2. States, Subjects, Secret Societies

      3. Uprisings

      4. 1848 and the End of the Congress System

      5. The Nation-State and the Unmaking of Empires

  6. Part IIRomancing the Nation

    1. 3Romantic Prophets: Inspired Poets Inspiring People

      1. At the Dawn of History: Original Genius

      2. An Apparition from the Past

      3. Sublime Liminality and Visionary Inspiration

      4. Channelling the Nation

      5. The Voice of the Nation

      6. The Poet as Role Model

      7. Imagined, Embodied and Affective Communities

    2. 4Manuscripts Found in the Attic

      1. Antiquaries and the Literary Past

      2. Archaeology in the Archives

      3. The European Republic of Philology

      4. Literary Histories, National Identity

      5. Entangled Roots

      6. Contested Heritage

      7. The Nation Goes Epic

    3. 5Ancestral Voices

      1. Heroic Balladry

      2. Flashback: Ossian in the Balkans

      3. The Nation as Author

      4. A Window on Mythology

      5. The Roots of Identity

      6. Making the Nation Personal: Self-Renamings

    4. 6Languages, States, Races

      1. Mother Tongue, Fatherland

      2. Macro-nationalism and Pan-movements: German as a Sliding Scale

      3. Etic and Emic: Which Differences Matter?

      4. Matryoshka Scalarity

      5. Historical Permanence versus Social Outreach

      6. Celts, Aryans, Turanians: Max Müller and Race

    5. 7History Related

      1. Walter Scott Moves On from Ossian

      2. Between History and Legend: Facts, Fiction and Fakes

      3. The Long Tail of the Historical Novel: Epic, Sentimental, Juvenile

      4. National History, National-Historical Myths, National Memory

    6. 8The Image and the Presence

      1. City Academies and Academic History Paintings

      2. From Classical to National: History and Imagination

      3. The Nazarenes and the Mural

      4. The Past as a Magic Mountain: Goslar

      5. Sentimental Historicism

      6. Remediations and Mass Commodification

      7. A Repertoire

    7. 9In Tune: Concerts, Choirs

      1. How a Wunderkind Became Hungarian

      2. ‘Gypsies’, Rhapsodies and the National Turn

      3. Audience, Participation, Festivals

  7. Part IIIAdapting to Modernity

    1. 10People in the Present

      1. Festive Culture, Urban Reticulation, Embodied Communities

      2. The City as Showcase: Modernity, Memory, Belonging

      3. Narratives of Timelessness, Rustic Spectacles

      4. The Tube and the Dirndl: Plein-air Painting and National Costume

      5. Exhibiting the Nation: World Fairs and Nation-Branding

      6. Henrik Ibsen and the Theatre

      7. Arts and Crafts in Fin-de-siècle Nation-Building

    2. 11Culture Mobilized

      1. Public Opinion, Public Rancour

      2. Political Professors: Fichte to Fustel

      3. Kultur, War, Propaganda

      4. National Identity at Stake

      5. Dulce et Decorum

    3. 12The Long Tail

      1. Romantic Afterlife in a Modern Century

      2. Democracy and Ethnocracy

      3. Nationalism after Decolonization

      4. The Nation at the Movies

      5. Cold-War Asymmetries

      6. Meanwhile, outside Europe

      7. Epic Nationalism: Outrage into Charisma

      8. Diffusion Condensed

    4. Summing Up

      1. The Wave and the Turbulence

      2. Shape-Shifting, Thin-Centred, Soft-Powered

      3. The Presence of the Past

      4. National Culture Transnationally Pursued

      5. Cultural Entanglement, Political Localism

      6. Transnational and Intimate: Scalarity and Affect

      7. Charisma, Disenchantment, Narcissism

      8. Small Government, Big Flags

  8. Notes

  9. Bibliography

  10. Index

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