The Rhine national tensions, romantic visions / edited by Manfred Beller, Joep Leerssen.
| Other author | Beller, Manfred. |
| Other author | Leerssen, Joseph Th. (Joseph Theodoor), 1955- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017] |
| Description | xiii, 347 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | European studies, 1568-1858 ; volume 33 |
| Contents | Introduction: the Rhine, Europe's frontier, Europe's dreamland: transnational destination, inspiration, disputation -- Part I. Case studies in geopolitics, romanticism and travel -- Victor Hugo's Le Rhin: French national perspectives on a European river / Manfred Beller -- The symbolical and political investment of the Rhine: a Dutch perspective / Joep Leerssen -- Italian travellers in the Rhineland in the first half of the nineteenth century / Giovanna Cermelli -- English middle-rhine tourism in late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature / Hans Werner Breunig -- North American travellers in the Rhine Valley: revisions of their perspectives on the landscape and on sites of memory in the contested region -- Waldemar zacharasiewicz -- Goethe's art travels in the Rhine regions 1814-1817 and his concept of decentralized collections / Helmut J. Schneider -- Restored future: a panorama of the castles, churches and monuments on the confluence of Rhine and Nahe / Manfred Beller -- The Rhine as a symbol: aspects, meanings and functionalization of a memory landscape / Elmar Scheuren -- The Walhalla: Bavarian Integration Monument, Germanic Hall of Fame, expression of European patronage / Reinhard Baumann -- Part II. A history of appropriations -- From the Meuse to the Rhine: a disputed region in French and German atlases and encyclopaedias / Manfred Beller -- The never-ending stream: cultural mobilization over the Rhine / Joep Leerssen -- Literary appropriations of the Rhine: a German-French repertory, 1814-1925. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017030790 |
| ISBN | 9789004344051 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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