Commemorating writers in nineteenth-century Europe : nation-building and centenary fever / edited by Joep Leerssen, Professor, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

The many statues to writers dotted around the cities of Europe are the leftovers of a wave of commemorations which passed across the continent in the nineteenth century. Commemorating Writers in Nineteenth-Century Europe is the first volume to study this phenomenon in depth, offering both detailed a...

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