67 texts, including hymns, manifestos, articles or extracts from lengthy studies exemplify the relation between Romanticism and the national movements in the cultural space ranging from Poland to the Ottoman Empire. Each text is accompanied by a presentation of the author, and by an analysis of the context in which the respective work was born.The end of the 18th century and first decades of the 19th were in many respects a watershed period in European history. The ideas of the Enlightenment and the dramatic convulsions of the French Revolution had shattered the old bonds and cast doubt upon the established moral and social norms of the old corporate society. In culture a new trend, Romanticism, was successfully asserting itself against Classicism and provided a new key for a growing number of activists to 're-imagine' their national community, reaching beyond the traditional frameworks of identification (such as the 'political nation', regional patriotism, or Christian universalism). The collection focuses on the interplay of Romantic cultural discourses and the shaping of national ideology throughout the 19th century, tracing the patterns of cultural transfer with Western Europe as well as the mimetic competition of national ideologies within the region.
- Cover
- Series title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contributors
- Table of Contents
- Introduction:The ‘Identity Reader’ Project
- Miroslav Hroch: National Romanticism
- Chapter I. Historicizing the Nation: Images of the Past, Continuity into the Present
- Dániel Berzsenyi: To the Hungarians
- Joseph von Hormayr: Austria and Germany
- Joachim Lelewel: Legitimacy of the Polish nation
- Mihail Kogălniceanu: Speech for the opening of the course on national history
- František Palacký: A History of the Czech nation in Bohemia and Moravia
- Mihály Horváth: History of the Hungarian war of independence of 1848-1849
- Jakub Malý: Our national rebirth
- Constantinos Paparrigopoulos: History of the Hellenic nation
- Jovan Jovanović Zmaj: Bright graves, Grandfather and grandson
- Ivan Vazov: Under the yoke
- Namık Kemal: Ottoman history
- Chapter II. Spirit of the Nation: Customs, Language, Religion
- Josef Jungmann: Second conversation concerning the Czech language
- Vuk Stefanović Karadžić: Little Slavo-Serbian song book of the common people
- Ferenc Kölcsey: National traditions, Hymn
- Maurycy Mochnacki: Thoughts on how the translation of foreign belles-lettres influences Polish literature
- Charles Sealsfield: Austria as it is
- Dimitrios Vyzantios: Babel, or the local distortion of the Greek language
- Henryk Rzewuski: Moral varieties
- Ľudovít Štúr: The Slovak dialect, or the necessity of writing in this dialect
- Jevrem Grujić and Milovan Janković: South Slavs, or the Serbian nation with the Croats and the Bulgarians
- Simion Bărnuţiu: The public law of the Romanians
- Dora D’Istria: The Albanian nationality on the basis of popular songs
- Osman Hamdi Bey and Victor Marie de Launay: The popular costumes of Turkey in 1873
- Stefan Verkovich: Veda Slovena
- Teodosij Gologanov: Letter on the renewal of the Archbishopric of Ohrid
- Mihai Eminescu: Political articles
- Chapter III. The Nationalization of Space
- Ján Kollár: The Daughter of Sláva
- Adam Mickiewicz: Pan Tadeusz
- István Széchenyi: Hunnia
- Ljudevit Gaj: Proclamations
- Ilija Garašanin: The draft
- Ioannis Kolettis: Of this great idea
- Karel Havlíček Borovský: The Slav and the Czech
- Petition to the Emperor against the unification of Bohemia and Moravia
- Johann Majláth: An examination of the question: whether to annex the Carpathian Slavs and Ruthenians to the Magyars
- Lajos Kossuth: Proposal. Concerning the future political establishment of Hungary
- Alecu Russo: The song of Romania
- Petar Beron: Slavic philosophy
- Ahmed Midhat Efendi: The basis of reform
- Sami Frashëri: Albania, what it was, what it is and what it will be?
- Chapter IV. The Nation and Its Neighbors in Europe: Problems of Coexistence
- Markos Renieris: What is Greece? West or East?
- Viktor von Andrian-Werburg: Austria and her future
- František Palacký: Letter to Frankfurt, 11 April 1848
- Miklós Wesselényi: Oration on the matter of the Hungarian and Slavonic nationalities
- Janko Drašković: Dissertation, or Treatise
- Ľudovít Šuhajda: Magyarism in Hungary
- Lajos Mocsáry: Nationality
- Stefan Buszczyński: The future of Austria
- Svetozar Miletić: The Eastern Question
- Ion C. Brătianu: Nationality
- Memorandum of the Secret Central Bulgarian Committee
- Chapter V. National Heroism: Revolution and Counter-Revolution
- Dositej Obradović: Rise, O Serbia
- Alexandros Ypsilantis: Fight for Faith and Motherland!
- Dionysios Solomos: Hymn to Liberty
- Adam Mickiewicz: Prophecies
- Henryk Kamieński: Vital truths of the Polish nation
- Petar II Petrović Njegoš: The mountain wreath
- Franz Grillparzer: Field-marshal Radetzky
- Sándor Petőfi: National song
- Requests of the Slovak nation
- Jevrem Grujić: A vision of the state
- Zsigmond Kemény: After the revolution
- Nicolae Bălcescu: The course of revolution in the history of the Romanians
- Hristo Botev: Hadji Dimiter, The hanging of Vasil Levski
- Two Macedonian manifestos
- Namık Kemal: Motherland, or Silistra
- Mehmed Akif: Hymn to Independence
- back cover