Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction: Narrating the Nation: Historiography and Other Genres 1
6. Part I. Scientific Approaches to National Narratives
7. 1. Historical Representation, Identity, Allegiance 19
8. 2. Drawing the Line: ‘Scientific’ History between Myth-making and Myth-breaking 35
9. 3. National Histories: Prospects for Critique and Narrative 56
10. Part II. Narrating the Nation as Literature
11. 4. Fiction as a Mediator in National Remembrance 79
12. 5. The Institutionalisation and Nationalisation of Literature in Nineteenth-century Europe 97
13. 6. Towards the Genre of Popular National History: Walter Scott after Waterloo 117
14. 7. Families, Phantoms and the Discourse of ‘Generations’ as a Politics of the Past: Problems of Provenance: Rejecting and Longing for Origins 133
15. Part III: Narrating the Nation as Film
16. 8. Sold Globally – Remembered Locally: Holocaust Cinema and the Construction of Collective Identities in Europe and the US 153
17. 9. Cannes 1956/1979: Riviera Reflections on Nationalism and Cinema 181
18. Part IV: Narrating the Nation as Art and Music
19. 10. From Discourse to Representation: ‘Austrian Memory’ in Public Space 207
20. 11. Personifying the Past: National and European History in the Fine and Applied Arts in the Age of Nationalism 222
21. 12. The Nation in Song 246
22. Part V: Non-European Perspectives on Nation and Narration
23. 13. ‘People’s History’ in North America: Agency, Ideology, Epistemology 269
24. 14. The Configuration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories: Writing National Histories in Northeast Asia 290
25. Notes on Contributors 309
26. Bibliography 315
27. Index 333