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This new revised edition includes more than 100 additional articles, including coverage of memory culture as an aspect of Romantic nationalism and improved coverage of various cultural communities such as Czech, Finnish and Hungarian.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Edited by Joep Leerssen, in cooperation with over 350 authors from dozens of countries, this encyclopedia gives a clear idea of the intricate (transnational and intermedial) networks and entanglements in which all aspects of Romantic Nationalism are connected.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49743169978641,"sku":"NGR9789463727495","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9463727493.jpg?v=1760694466"},{"product_id":"comparative-literature-in-britain-book-joep-leerssen-9781781887134","title":"Comparative Literature in Britain","description":"The discipline of Comparative Literature, with its application of a transnational perspective to literature as a multinational historical praxis, is gaining fresh interest in today's globalizing, postcolonial world. It emerged in the nineteenth century as a countermovement to the increasingly national-philological scope of literary studies. The checkered history of its emergence and acceptance in the British Isles throws a fascinating light on literary, critical and scholarly mentalities of the last two centuries. \u003cbr\u003eIn this book, Leerssen and Shaffer approach the discipline's history in Britain as a problem in intellectual history, situated in a variety of contexts and crosscurrents. The meaning of 'literature' itself has been in flux, as was the British academic system which has valued it very differently at different times. Cultural transfers from Continental scholarship, and champions such as Matthew Arnold, gave comparative approaches increasing prestige. British comparatism became an established academic discipline after the Second World War. 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It emerged in the nineteenth century as a countermovement to methodological nationalism in the philologies. The chequered history of its acceptance in the British Isles throws a fascinating light on the last two centuries, amid many intellectual cross-currents: the British politics of the 'Four Nations', Imperial ethnography, and the complex relationship between literary critics and the university.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeerssen addresses both the intellectual and the institutional aspects of this history of knowledge production. The example of Continental scholarship, and of champions like Matthew Arnold, gave the comparatist approaches increasing prestige; but it became an established academic discipline only in the internationalist climate after 1945. 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