Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 7
3. List of illustrations 11
4. Introduction 13
5. Part I National Questions
6. 1 National Stereotypes in Early Modern Europe 29
7. 2 Constructed or Primordial? 41
8. 3 Nationalism and the Rhine 51
9. 4 Cultural Nationalism beyond Europe 63
10. Part II Networked Nations
11. 5 Firebrand Folklore 73
12. 6 The Nation as a Network 85
13. 7 A Network in Search of an Alternative Modernity 97
14. 8 A Dutch Journal with a European Programme 105
15. Part III Canonicity and Culture
16. 9 Cultural Nationalism and the Invention of Dutch Literary Icons 115
17. 10 Colonial Legacies in European Folklore Studies 127
18. 11 The Canonization of the Artisan around 1900 137
19. 12 Sigurður Guðmundsson and Jón Árnason’s Icelandic Folktales 147
20. 13 Songs His Mother Taught Him 157
21. 14 The Genesis of a National Product 167
22. Part IV Historicity and Narrative
23. 15 Travelling Westwards 187
24. 16 Finding Oneself within Germania 203
25. 17 The Faces of Crisis 211
26. 18 The Extension of Traditions 223
27. 19 The Buried Tombstone, the Melting Iceberg, and the Random Bullet 243
28. 20 Reconstituting the European Historical Novel in Latin America 255
29. Part V Imagology, Identity and Alterity
30. 21 The Shape of Things to Come 263
31. 22 Auto-exoticism and the Irish Colonial Landscape 275
32. 23 Ordinary Eyesight? 285
33. 24 European Constructions of the Asian East in the Novels of John Buchan 295
34. 25 Prerequisites to the Study of “Social Perception” 305
35. 26 Considerations of an Imagined Land 313
36. Acknowledgments 325
37. List of Contributors 327
38. Index 333