Table of Contents

pp 7-10

List of illustrations

pp 11-12

Introduction: Of Networks, Narratives and Nations

pp 13-28

Part I - National Questions

pp 29-30

1 - National Stereotypes in Early Modern Europe: Some Reflections

pp 31-40

2 - Constructed or Primordial?: The European Nation-State

pp 41-50

3 - Nationalism and the Rhine: A Matter of Perspective?

pp 51-62

4 - Cultural Nationalism beyond Europe: Genealogies of Mankind, Imperial Custodianships and Anticolonial Resistance

pp 63-72

Part II - Networked Nations

pp 73-74

5 - Firebrand Folklore: Musical Memory and the Making of Transnational Networks

pp 75-84

6 - The Nation as a Network: Rizaeddin Fakhreddinov’s Islamic Biographies

pp 85-96

7 - A Network in Search of an Alternative Modernity Artists’ Colonies in Europe (1870–1914)

pp 97-104

8 - A Dutch Journal with a European Programme: DeMuzen

pp 105-114

Part III - Canonicity and Culture

pp 115-116

9 - Cultural Nationalism and the Invention of Dutch Literary Icons

pp 117-126

10 - Colonial Legacies in European Folklore Studies

pp 127-136

11 - The Canonization of the Artisan around 1900

pp 137-146

12 - Sigurður Guðmundsson and Jón Árnason’s Icelandic Folktales

pp 147-156

13 - Songs His Mother Taught Him: Émile Legrand’s Collection of Lacemakers’ Ballads

pp 157-166

14 - The Genesis of a National Product: Henry Havard and the Renewed Interest in Delftware, 1850–1920

pp 167-186

Part IV - Historicity and Narrative

pp 187-188

15 - Travelling Westwards: Finding Europe in the Irish Middle Ages

pp 189-202

16 - Finding Oneself within Germania: Karl Viktor Mühlenhoff’s Reading of Widsith

pp 203-210

17 - The Faces of Crisis: Rethinking a Key Concept in View of the Transnational Intellectual History of Europe

pp 211-222

18 - The Extension of Traditions: King Stephen I of Hungary and the Politics of Cultural Nationalism

pp 223-242

19 - The Buried Tombstone, the Melting Iceberg, and the Random Bullet : History, Memory and Antagonism in Ireland

pp 243-254

20 - Reconstituting the European Historical Novel in Latin America : Mario Vargas Llosa in the Backlands of Brazil

pp 255-262

Part V - Imagology, Identity and Alterity

pp 263-264

21 - The Shape of Things to Come: Thomas Pennant’s Tour of Ireland in 1754

pp 265-274