Hermann the German: Nineteenth-Century Monuments and Histories

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Copyright References VII
4. Graeco-Roman Antiquity and the Idea of Nationalism in the Nineteenth Century: Introduction 1
5. Classical Ideals and the Formation of Modern Nations in Europe 19
6. Making Nations in the Image of Greece: Classical Greek Conceptions of the Body in the Construction of National Identity in Nineteenth-Century England, France and Germany 45
7. ‘Je viens comme Thémistocle’: Napoleon and National Identity after Waterloo 71
8. The Emperor’s Caesar: Napoleon III, Karl Marx and the History of Julius Caesar 113
9. Faithful unto Death: Militarism, Masculinity and National Identity in Victorian Britain 131
10. Constructing the Nation and Empire: Victorian and Edwardian Images of the Building of Roman Fortifications 153
11. Henry Courteney Selous’ Boadicea and the Westminster Cartoon Competition 175
12. A Nation Finds its People: Friedrich Kohlrausch, New Readers and Readings of Tacitus’ Germania and the Rise of a Popular German Nationalism 199
13. Hermann the German: Nineteenth-Century Monuments and Histories 219
14. Arminius in Bohemia: Two Uses of Tacitus in Czech Art 235
15. Classical Translations and Strands of Irish Nationalism 269
16. Contributors 289
17. Index rerum 293
18. Index nominum (personarum) 299
19. Index locorum 305