Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xv

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2. Introduction

   • Ann Rigney, Joep Leerssen

   Pages 1-23

3. Schiller 1859

   • Joep Leerssen

   Pages 24-39

4. Burns 1859

   • Ann Rigney

   Pages 40-64

5. Scott 1871

   • Ann Rigney

   Pages 65-87

6. Moore 1879

   • Ronan Kelly

   Pages 88-101

7. Dante 1865

   • Mahnaz Yousefzadeh

   Pages 102-116

8. Petrarch 1804–1904

   • Harald Hendrix

   Pages 117-133

9. Petrarch 1874

   • Francesca Zantedeschi

   Pages 134-151

10. Voltaire 1878

    • Pierre Boudrot

    Pages 152-172

11. Vondel 1867

    • Joep Leerssen

    Pages 173-187

12. Conscience 1883

    • An De Ridder

    Pages 188-202

13. Pushkin 1880

    • Neil Stewart

    Pages 203-223

14. Prešeren 1905

    • Marijan Dović

    Pages 224-249

15. Mácha, Petőfi, Mickiewicz

    • John Neubauer

    Pages 250-261

16. Cervantes 1916

    • Clara Calvo

    Pages 262-282

17. Whose Camões?

    • Paulo de Medeiros

    Pages 283-294

18. Back Matter

    Pages 295-301

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This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.

• Memory studies
• colonialism
• Cultural Memory
• Dante
• Europe
• France
• individual
• memory
• Russia
• Slovenia
• Voltaire

“This substantial collection … brings together fifteen case studies of literary commemoration to produce the first comparative study of literary centenaries during the time of the ‘centenary fever’ in 19^th century Europe. … Bringing together a great deal of recent research and opening up lines for further inquiry, Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe is, in every sense, a productive volume.” (Ina Ferris, Arcadia, Vol. 50 (2), 2015)

• University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

  Joep Leerssen

• Utrecht University, Netherlands

  Ann Rigney

Pierre Boudrot, University Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France Clara Calvo, University of Murcia, Spain Marijan Dovi?, University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia Harald Hendrix, Utrecht University, Netherlands Ronan Kelly, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK John Neubauer, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands An de Ridder, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Ann Rigney, Utrecht University, Netherlands Neil Stewart, University of Bonn, Germany Mahnaz Yousefzadeh, New York University, USA Francesca Zantedeschi, European University Institute, Italy

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