Joep Leerssen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 246546 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Joep Leerssen |
| PRENOMES | Joep |
| SOBRENOME | Leerssen |
| ASSINATURA | LEERSSEN J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0456-0078 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 108 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1989 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
United Kingdoms
Ethnophilology
The semantic slippage between physical and cultural ethnicity is an ambiguity that lies at the very root of nineteenth-century knowledge production. In this essay it is traced discursively in a field identified as “ethnophilology,” which is argued to have been a diffuse though formative source tradition for later scientific racism. It typically oscillates between ethnic positonings of the nation as a language-based communication community, a terr…
The Cambridge History of Nationhood and Nationalism
This major new reference work with contributions from an international team of scholars provides a comprehensive account of ideas and practices of nationhood and nationalism from antiquity to the present. It considers both continuities and discontinuities, engaging critically and analytically with the scholarly literature in the field. Volume I starts with a series of case studies of classical civilizations. It then explores a wide range of pivot…
The Brothers Grimm and the Making of German Nationalism
Introduction volume 12
Introduction for SNM volume 12
Heart to Heart
In nineteenth-century nation-building, the textual genres investigated by researchers are usually long-distance, mediated ones, such as journalism and the novel. This article attempts to assess the function of a much more intimate literary genre, the lyrical, in that process. Lyricism was a central poetical element in Romanticism; its emotive, affect-centered mode was seen as specifically “immediate”, non-mediatized and deeply personal (and there…
Sua fata
The early decades of the 19th century witnessed, all over Europe, a surge of Romantic historicism which affected, not only the production of fresh texts, but also the (re-)discovery and edition of ancient ones. While this phenomenon spawned the paradigm of the “national literatures” across Europe, neither its transnational spread nor its receptive/productive dualism can be properly charted by the “national” literary historiography which emerged i…
World Fairs and the Global Moulding of National Identities
This volume examines the role of the broad variety of international exhibitions between 1851 and 1958 in two programmatic essays and twelve case studies, covering not just France and the United States, but also, among others, Sweden, Romania, Colombia, Japan and the nascent European Community. World fairs were global platforms for the construction of national identities. The mix of national self-profiling and commercial exoticism turned the natio…
Interview with Miroslav Hroch
Miroslav Hroch has recently celebrated his 90th birthday. A reason for SNM to ask this pioneer and elder statesman in the comparative study of national movements for a brief interview. The questions and answers were exchanged by e-mail in late 2022/early 2023 in a mixture of English and German
Enmity, Identity, Discourse
Imagological analysis can be fruitfully applied to political discourse, most importantly the discourse of international antagonism and national self-positioning used in government decision-making circles. Historians studying that discourse have tended to see its rhetoric of national characterization merely as a distracting accompaniment to actual, factually driven policies and developments. This, it is argued here, questionably presupposes that t…
Symposium for Miroslav Hroch
Twelve historians and social scientists reflect on Miroslav Hroch's contributions to the field of nationalism studies. There are essays on his pioneering comparative historical studies of ‘small nation’ national movements and his distinction between nationalism and national movements. Other essays focus on concepts such as those of protagonist, the three phases of national movements, the small nation and nationally relevant conflict of interest. …
Languages, Identities and Cultural Transfers
What was the perception of Greece in Europe during the later nineteenth century, when the attraction of romantic philhellenism had waned? This volume focuses on the reception of medieval and modern Greece in the European press, rigorously analysing journals and newspapers published in England, France, Germany, Italy, and The Netherlands. The essays here suggest that reactions to the Greek state's progress and irredentist desires were followed amo…
Intuiting Archetypes
Parnell and his Times
Marked by names such as W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and Patrick Pearse, the decade 1910–1920 was a period of revolutionary change in Ireland, in literature, politics and public opinion. What fed the creative and reformist urge besides the circumstances of the moment and a vision of the future? The leading experts in Irish history, literature and culture assembled in this volume argue that the shadow of the past was also a driving factor: the traumat…
National Thought in Europe
Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's -soul . The belief and ideology of the nation's cultural individuality emerged from a Europe-wide exchange of ideas, often articulated in literature and belles lettres. In the last two centuries, these ideas have transformed the map of Europe and the relati…
National Thought in Europe
Encyclopedia of Romantic Nationalism in Europe
This encyclopedia documents the presence and impact of nationalized cultural consciousness in European nationalism. It tracks how intellectuals, historians, philologists, novelists, poets, painters, folklorists, and composers, in an intensely collaborative transnational network, articulated the national identities and aspirations that would go on to determine European history and politics, with effects that are still felt today. Edited by Joep Le…
S hane N agle . Histories of Nationalism in Ireland and Germany
Shane Nagle attempts two things at once. He looks at the role of historians in formulating ideas of national identity, thus placing their cultural production squarely in the middle of the political practices that we usually think of when we talk of nationalism. And he does so in a biculturally comparative framework, juxtaposing historians from Germany and Ireland. How will this book appeal to those who do not share its specifically Irish-German f…
Tribal Ancestors and Moral Role Patterns
Convulsion Recalled
V olk
Volk is the German equivalent of “nation.” This entry charts its meaning and the checkered history of its political usage, ranging from radical democracy to Nazi racism.
Convulsion Recalled
It is no coincidence that the field of memory studies or ‘mnemohistory’ has been deeply influenced by scholars with a background in literary rather than social-political history — from Aleida and Jan Assmann, by way of Ansgar Nünning and Astrid Erll, to Ann Rigney and Michael Rothberg. Of all the historical sciences, literary history is perhaps the specialism that is most consciously aware of the duality of history, its oscillation between event …
J ahn, F riedrich L udwig (1778–1852)
The German national activist Friedrich Ludwig Jahn created modern gymnastics around 1810. He did so as part of a fervently anti‐French nationalism and saw athletic training as a physical regeneration program for the nation and a preparation for military discipline. Thus he stands at the origin of sporting gymnastics, physical education in schools, and the use of sports organizations for purposes of nationalist mobilization.
Arndt, Ernst Moritz (1769–1860)
The German intellectual Ernst Moritz Arndt, fervent opponent of the French‐Napoleonic hegemony, stands at the beginning of ethnolinguistic nationalism and of the tendency to devise the state's territorial outlines along cultural and historical lines.
Comparing What, Precisely? H. M. Posnett and the Conceptual History of ‘Comparative Literature’
The emergence of Comparatism is not just a specific topic within the history of literature, or of literary criticism; it should be understood as the point of interaction of at least four major intellectual shifts in the nineteenth century. There may be more factors involved; but the four I highlight in the following pages are: 1) the progressive development of scientific methods and insights; 2) the institutional infrastructures underlying the ‘s…
Nationalism and the cultivation of culture
On the basis of an extensive sample of European source material, the article investigates the meaning and importance of ‘culture’ in cultural nationalism. The author argues that European cultural nationalism in the nineteenth century followed a separate dynamic and chronology from political nationalism. Cultural nationalism involved an intense cross‐border traffic of ideas and intellectual initiatives, and its participating actors often operated …
The Rhetoric of National Character
This article studies the notion of "national character" as it is formulated in literature and as it influences literary praxis. Starting from the insights of image studies or "imagology" (a comparatist specialism developed over the last five decades, mainly in France and Germany), national thought, as one of the most pervasive and enduring cultural ideologies, should be critically and systematically studied in its literary manifestation. In order…
The nation and the city
This article attempts to map the relations between nation‐building processes in 19th‐century Europe and city cultures with their urban sociability. Three patterns are surveyed: [1] the modern‐national assimilation of medieval and early‐modern city cultures (sample case: Orléans and the French cult of Joan of Arc); [2] the modular replication across cities of urban festivals as cultural mobilizers (sample case: the spread of Floral Games festivals…
Viral nationalism
Intellectuals were important to the spread of nationalist ideology in nineteenth‐century Europe for a variety of reasons. Firstly, their works facilitated the international spread of the discourse of nationalism; secondly, they mediated between the fields of political institutions and cultural reflection. This article looks at the international mobility and networks of romantic‐nationalist intellectuals, and uses the case of August Heinrich Hoffm…
Wildness, Wilderness, and Ireland
In the Middle Ages the great contrast was not, as it had been in antiquity, between the city and the country (urbs and rus, as the Romans put it) but between nature and culture, expressed in terms of the "opposition between what was built, cultivated, and inhabited (city, castle, village) and what was essentially wild (the ocean and forest, the western equivalents of the eastern desert), that is, between men who lived in groups and those who live…
Romanticism, music, nationalism
In manifold ways, the stylistic and performative features and evolving genre conventions of nineteenth‐century ‘classical’ music reflect the increasing grip of nationalism on cultural attitudes inEurope. Conversely, music could become an important medium for the expression and dissemination of nationalist ideals. A cross‐national,European‐wide survey of this interpenetration between musical and ideological developments is applied towards a tentat…
Denied ethnicism
The Walloon movement is the lesser‐known counterpart to the Flemish movement in Belgium. In contemporary political debate it presents itself, and is usually perceived, as a civic and voluntaristic movement predicated on the values of democracy, freedom, openness and anti‐nationalism. As such it is contrasted against its Flemish counterpart, which accordingly is characterised as tending towards an ethnic exclusivist form of nationalism hinging on …
Seventh nations and nationalism debate
How The Wild Irish Girl Made Ireland Romantic
Studying Alterity
All human cultures articulate, situate themselves by categorizing the world.Such a predicative act necessarily involves a distinction between that which is allowed into the sphere of culture, and that which is excluded; the circumscription of cultural identity proceeds by silhouetting it against a contrastive background of Otherness.It is this Otherness, both created by, and providing the cognitive background to, articulations of cultural identit…
Alterity, Identity, Image
Forging in the Smithy
The interest of Anglo-Irish literature is not only that its canon includes a high proportion of literary giants - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett - but also that it exemplifies the problematics of literature in a context of social and cultural tension. Irish literary history has often been studied under precisely that aspect: as the literature of a country in a marginal, colonial yet intra-European position; a country where a variety of cultural traditions…
Wildness, Wilderness, and Ireland
In the Middle Ages the great contrast was not, as it had been in antiquity, between the city and the country (urbs and rus, as the Romans put it) but between nature and culture, expressed in terms of the "opposition between what was built, cultivated, and inhabited (city, castle, village) and what was essentially wild (the ocean and forest, the western equivalents of the eastern desert), that is, between men who lived in groups and those who live…
Celticism
Irish Studies and Orientalism
For a Post-Foucauldian Literary History
For A Post-Foucaldian Literary History: A Test Case from the Gaelic Tradition Joep Leerssen (bio) for Ann Dooley First of all, discourses are objects of appropriation. 1 I One of the more general, diffuse influences of the work of Michel Foucault on subsequent scholarship has been the fact that we have a more balanced understanding of the various fields of writing that between them make up the discourse of a given cultural episteme. For one thing…
Historians and Social Values
Historians and Social Values
Is historical scholarship compatible with commitment to social values? Do professional historians have particular social responsibilities and if so, how can they best exercise them? These are questions which are chronically open to debate in the light of changing historical circumstances and changing historical practices. In recent years, they have re-emerged as a result of a number of theoretical and cultural developments: the increasing realiza…
The Rhetoric of National Character
This article studies the notion of "national character" as it is formulated in literature and as it influences literary praxis. Starting from the insights of image studies or "imagology" (a comparatist specialism developed over the last five decades, mainly in France and Germany), national thought, as one of the most pervasive and enduring cultural ideologies, should be critically and systematically studied in its literary manifestation. In order…
Types, Tropes, and the Poetics of Conventionality
Poetics Today - Volume 22, Number 3, Fall 2001
The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Irish Drama
The essays in this collection cover the whole range of Irish drama from the late nineteenth-century melodramas which anticipated the rise of the Abbey Theatre to the contemporary Dublin of theatre festivals. A team of international experts from Ireland, the UK, the USA and Europe provide individual studies of internationally known playwrights of the period of the Literary Revival - Yeats, Synge, Lady Gregory, Shaw, Wilde, O'Casey - and contempora…
Nationalism and the cultivation of culture
On the basis of an extensive sample of European source material, the article investigates the meaning and importance of ‘culture’ in cultural nationalism. The author argues that European cultural nationalism in the nineteenth century followed a separate dynamic and chronology from political nationalism. Cultural nationalism involved an intense cross‐border traffic of ideas and intellectual initiatives, and its participating actors often operated …
Identity/alterity/hybridity
Imagology
How do national stereotypes emerge? To which extent are they determined by historical or ideological circumstances, or else by cultural, literary or discursive conventions? This first inclusive critical compendium on national characterizations and national (cultural or ethnic) stereotypes contains 120 articles by 73 contributors. Its three parts offer [1] a number of in-depth survey articles on ethnic and national images in European literatures a…
Postscript
Setting the Scene for National History
Narrative is an all-pervasive human activity; it far exceeds the genres of literary fiction (story, novella, folktale, novel, even myth and drama), since it is also the form in which real-life stories are often recounted – journalism, legend, autobiography, travel writing and, especially, certain traditions in history writing. Yet, despite this wide-spread fluidity of narrative as a discursive format or even a mode of our imagining things, not al…
The Call of the Homeland
Viral nationalism
Intellectuals were important to the spread of nationalist ideology in nineteenth‐century Europe for a variety of reasons. Firstly, their works facilitated the international spread of the discourse of nationalism; secondly, they mediated between the fields of political institutions and cultural reflection. This article looks at the international mobility and networks of romantic‐nationalist intellectuals, and uses the case of August Heinrich Hoffm…
Lebowski's rug and the book in nineteenth-century Ireland
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Denied ethnicism
The Walloon movement is the lesser‐known counterpart to the Flemish movement in Belgium. In contemporary political debate it presents itself, and is usually perceived, as a civic and voluntaristic movement predicated on the values of democracy, freedom, openness and anti‐nationalism. As such it is contrasted against its Flemish counterpart, which accordingly is characterised as tending towards an ethnic exclusivist form of nationalism hinging on …
Seventh nations and nationalism debate
Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Romanticism, music, nationalism
In manifold ways, the stylistic and performative features and evolving genre conventions of nineteenth‐century ‘classical’ music reflect the increasing grip of nationalism on cultural attitudes inEurope. Conversely, music could become an important medium for the expression and dissemination of nationalist ideals. A cross‐national,European‐wide survey of this interpenetration between musical and ideological developments is applied towards a tentat…
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