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The Rhine : National Tensions, Romantic Visions.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: European StudiesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (361 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004344068
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Rhine: National Tensions, Romantic VisionsDDC classification:
  • 943.4
LOC classification:
  • DD801.R725 .R456 2017
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- The Rhine: National tensions, Romantic visions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Rhine, Europe's Frontier, Europe's Dreamland: Transnational Destination, Inspiration, Disputation -- Part 1: Case Studies in Geopolitics, Romanticism and Travel -- 1 Victor Hugo's Le Rhin: French National Perspectives on a European River -- 2 The Symbolical and Political Investment of the Rhine: A Dutch Perspective -- 3 Italian Travellers in the Rhineland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 4 English Middle-Rhine Tourism in Late-eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Literature -- 5 North American Travellers in the Rhine Valley: Revisions of Their Perspectives on the Landscape and on Sites of Memory in the Contested Region -- 6 Goethe's Art Travels in the Rhine Regions 1814-1817 and His Concept of Decentralized Collections -- 7 Restored Future: A Panorama of the Castles, Churches and Monuments on the Confluence of Rhine and Nahe -- 8 The Rhine as a Symbol: Aspects, Meanings and Functionalization of a Memory Landscape -- 9 The Walhalla: Bavarian Integration Monument, Germanic Hall of Fame, Expression of European Patronage -- Part 2: A History of Appropriations -- 10 From the Meuse to the Rhine: A Disputed Region in French and German Atlases and Encyclopaedias -- 11 The Never-ending Stream: Cultural Mobilization over the Rhine -- 12 Literary Appropriations of the Rhine: A German-French Repertory, 1814-1925.
Summary: This volume presents documents and analyses, from various specialisms and perspectives, the cultural, political and national investments and appropriations of the Rhine, from Byron to Lucien Febvre, and from tourism to war propaganda. It includes a comprehensive anthology of original Rhine-related texts (historical, poetical and polemical).
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Intro -- The Rhine: National tensions, Romantic visions -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: The Rhine, Europe's Frontier, Europe's Dreamland: Transnational Destination, Inspiration, Disputation -- Part 1: Case Studies in Geopolitics, Romanticism and Travel -- 1 Victor Hugo's Le Rhin: French National Perspectives on a European River -- 2 The Symbolical and Political Investment of the Rhine: A Dutch Perspective -- 3 Italian Travellers in the Rhineland in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 4 English Middle-Rhine Tourism in Late-eighteenth and Nineteenth-century Literature -- 5 North American Travellers in the Rhine Valley: Revisions of Their Perspectives on the Landscape and on Sites of Memory in the Contested Region -- 6 Goethe's Art Travels in the Rhine Regions 1814-1817 and His Concept of Decentralized Collections -- 7 Restored Future: A Panorama of the Castles, Churches and Monuments on the Confluence of Rhine and Nahe -- 8 The Rhine as a Symbol: Aspects, Meanings and Functionalization of a Memory Landscape -- 9 The Walhalla: Bavarian Integration Monument, Germanic Hall of Fame, Expression of European Patronage -- Part 2: A History of Appropriations -- 10 From the Meuse to the Rhine: A Disputed Region in French and German Atlases and Encyclopaedias -- 11 The Never-ending Stream: Cultural Mobilization over the Rhine -- 12 Literary Appropriations of the Rhine: A German-French Repertory, 1814-1925.

This volume presents documents and analyses, from various specialisms and perspectives, the cultural, political and national investments and appropriations of the Rhine, from Byron to Lucien Febvre, and from tourism to war propaganda. It includes a comprehensive anthology of original Rhine-related texts (historical, poetical and polemical).

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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