Editing the nation's memory: textual scholarship and nation-building in nineteenth-century Europe

Authors in this volume Joep LEERSSEN: Introduction: Philology and the European Construction of National Literatures Texts Between Past and Present: European Readerships, National Rootedness Dirk VAN HULLE: A Darwinian Change in European Editorial Thinking Geert LERNOUT: The Angel of Philology Case Studies I: Emerging Canons Around the European Rim Darko DOLINAR: Slovene Text Editions, Slavic Philology and Nation-Building Paulius V. SUBACIUS: Inscribing Orality: The First Folklore Editions in the Baltic States Paula HENRIKSON: Scania Province Law and Nation-Building in Scandinavia Mary-Ann CONSTANTINE: Welsh Literary History and the Making of 'The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales' Bernadette CUNNINGHAM: John O'Donovan's Edition of the Annals of the Four Masters: An Irish Classic? Joao DIONISIO: After the Lisbon Earthquake: Reassembling History Magi SUNYER: Medieval Heritage in the Beginnings of Modern Catalan Literature, 1780-1841 Philippe MARTEL: The Troubadours and the French State Case Studies II: European Cross-Currents: England, Germany and the Low Countries Tom SHIPPEY: The Case of Beowulf Thomas BEIN: Walther von der Vogelweide and Early-Nineteenth-Century Learning Herman BRINKMAN: Hoffmann von Fallersleben and Medieval Dutch Folksong Jan PAUWELS: Private to Public: Book Collecting and Philology in Early-Independent Belgium (1830-1880) Marita MATHIJSEN: Stages in the Development of Dutch Literary Historicism Joep LEERSSEN: The Nation's Canon and the Book Trade