Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements
Introduction: Narrating the Nation: Historiography and Other Genres Stefan Berger
PART I: SCIENTIFIC APPROACHES TO NATIONAL NARRATIVES
Chapter 1. Historical Representation, Identity, Allegiance Allan Megill
Chapter 2. Drawing the Line: ‘Scientific’ History between Myth-making and Myth-breaking Chris Lorenz
Chapter 3. National Histories: Prospects for Critique and Narrative Mark Bevir
PART II: NARRATING THE NATION AS LITERATURE
Chapter 4. Fiction as a Mediator in National Remembrance Ann Rigney
Chapter 5. The Institutionalisation and Nationalisation of Literature in Nineteenth-century Europe John Neubauer
Chapter 6. Towards the Genre of Popular National History: Walter Scott after Waterloo Linas Eriksonas
Chapter 7. Families, Phantoms and the Discourse of ‘Generations’ as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for Origins Sigrid Weigel
PART III: NARRATING THE NATION AS FILM
Chapter 8. Sold Globally – Remembered Locally: Holocaust Cinema and the Construction of Collective Identities in Europe and the US Wulf Kansteiner
Chapter 9. Cannes 1956/1979: Riviera Reflections on Nationalism and Cinema Hugo Frey
PART IV: NARRATING THE NATION AS ART AND MUSIC
Chapter 10. From Discourse to Representation: ‘Austrian Memory’ in Public Space Heidemarie Uhl
Chapter 11. Personifying the Past: National and European History in the Fine and Applied Arts in the Age of Nationalism Michael Wintle
Chapter 12. The Nation in Song Philip V. Bohlman
PART V: NON-EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON NATION AND NARRATION
Chapter 13. ‘People’s History’ in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology Peter Seixas
Chapter 14. The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories: Writing National Histories in Northeast Asia Jie-Hyun Lim
Notes on Contributors Bibliography Index