The Antiquarians of the Nation : Monuments and Language in Nineteenth-Century Roussillon.

Intro -- The Antiquarians of the Nation: Monuments and Language in Nineteenth-Century Roussillon -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Maps and Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Theoretical and Methodological Frameworks -- 2 The 'Antiquarians of the Nation' in Roussillon -- 3 About Roussillon Cultural Revival -- 4 Structure of the Book -- Part 1: Monuments -- 1 Tailoring the Repertoire of the French Nation -- 1 The Revolutionary Vandalism and the Preservation of National Heritage -- 1.1 The Raising Awareness of the 'national heritage' and its Enhancement -- 1.2 The Preservation of National Heritage: The Creation of Museums -- 2 Searching for ancestors: the enthusiasm for the Middle Ages -- 2.1 The Romanists-Germanists debate -- 3 Early Nineteenth-Century Celticism and the Celtic Origins of France -- 3.1 The Académie Celtique and the Beginnings of French Ethnology -- 3.2 The Celtophile Trend in Literature -- 4 Rewriting the History of the French People(s) -- 5 Governing the Historical and Documental Heritage -- 5.1 The Commission des monuments historiques -- 2 Antiquarians and Archaeologists: The Retrieval of Monuments in Roussillon -- 1 From Antiquarianism to Archaeology -- 2 Initial attempts to Preserve National Monuments in Roussillon -- 2.1 The Enquête pour la recherche des antiquités -- 2.2 The Results of the Survey in the Pyrénées-Orientales Department -- 3 Travelling in and Discovering Medieval France -- 3.1 The Promotion of Romanesque Monuments -- 3.2 Mérimée's Journey to Roussillon -- 4 Institutionalising Archaeology in Roussillon -- 4.1 Searching for Celtic Monuments -- 5 The Early Rearrangements of the cths -- The Revue des Société savantes replaced the Bulletin. -- 6 The Sociétés Savantes and the Recovery of Roussillon Cultural Particularities -- 6.1 Cultural Life in Roussillon Under the July Monarchy -- Part 2: Language.

3 Vernacular Languages to be Preserved as National Heritage: Catalan -- 1 Catalan Language in Roussillon Prior to the Nineteenth Century -- 2 The Politics of Language at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century -- 2.1 The First Surveys on Languages -- 3 The Blossoming of the Romance Studies in France -- 3.1 The Burgeoning Taxonomy: Grammars, Manuals, and Dictionaries -- 4 Romance Studies: Recovering Catalan -- 4.1 Early Studies on Catalan in Roussillon -- 4.2 Jaubert de Passa's Historical Research on Catalan -- 4 The Long-Standing Traditionalist Approach to Language Studies -- 1 A Step Further: Differentiating Catalan from Occitan -- 1.1 François-Romain Cambouliu's Research -- 2 Romance Studies in France in the Second Half of the Century -- 2.1 The Consecration of National Romance Studies -- 3 The Resilient 'Antiquarian' Approach of Roussillon Philologists -- Part 3: Catalan Cultural Revival in Roussillon -- 5 A Transnational Cultural Context: Occitans and Catalans -- 1 The Awakening of the French 'Provinces' -- 2 The Occitan Cultural Revival -- 2.1 The Forerunners of the Provençal Literary Revival: the 'Dialectal' Poets -- 3 The Félibrige -- 3.1 Mistral's Myth -- 4 Resurrecting the Albigensians -- 5 The Occitan-Catalan Friendship -- 6 The Recovery of the Catalan National Culture -- 6.1 Literary Historicism -- 6.2 Language -- 6.3 The Renaixença -- 7 From Cultural Revival to the First Political Ventures -- 8 Re-reading the Occitan-Catalan 'Friendship' -- 6 Catalan Language and Literature in Roussillon, 1880-1906 -- 1 The Troubled Dawning of the Third Republic -- 1.1 The Anticlerical Policies of the Third Republic -- 2 Vernacular Language as a Religious Rampart -- 2.1 Abbé Joseph Santol -- 3 Catalan and Roussillon 'Germanor' -- 3.1 Catalan National Epics: L'Atlàntida and Canigó -- 3.2 The Genesis of Canigó and Its Reception in Roussillon.

3.3 Celebrating Catalan Brotherhood -- 4 The 'Dark Side' of the Roussillon Linguistic and Literary Revival -- 5 On the Way to fin-de-siècle Regionalism -- 5.1 Debates on Catalan by the End of the Nineteenth Century -- 6 The Linguistic Standardisation of Catalan -- 6.1 The Primer Congrés Internacional de la Llengua Catalana (1906) -- 6.2 Impact of the Congress in Roussillon -- Conclusion -- 1 Challenging the Notion of 'Renaixença' in Roussillon -- Bibliography -- Index.

In The Antiquarians of the Nation, Francesca Zantedeschi explores how the works of Roussillon's nineteenth-century archaeologists and philologists, who retrieved and enhanced the Catalan specificities of the region, contributed to the early stages of a 'national' (Catalan) cultural revival.

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