Lotte Jenson, "Free Access to the Past: Romanticism, Cultural Heritage and the Nation "
English | ISBN: 900418029X | 2010 | 342 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
English | ISBN: 900418029X | 2010 | 342 pages | AZW3 | 3 MB
Ranging across different countries and cultural domains (museums, opera, literature, history-writing), this collection explores the romantic-historicist complexities at the root of the modern nation-state: how the past became both colourfully exotic and a matter of national identification and public interest.