Nationalism before the Nation State: Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and Self-Definition (1756-1871)

207 Pages·2020·3.565 MB·English

by  Dagmar Paulus, Ellen Pilsworth

Nationalism before the Nation State
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National Cultivation of Culture
Edited by
Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam)
Editorial Board
John Breuilly (The London School of Economics and Political Science)
Katharine Ellis (University of Cambridge)
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Patrick J. Geary (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Tom Shippey (Saint Louis University)
Anne-Marie Thiesse (cnrs, National Center for Scientific Research)
volume 22
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Nationalism before the
Nation State
Literary Constructions of Inclusion, Exclusion, and
Self-Definition (1756–1871)
Edited by
Dagmar Paulus
Ellen Pilsworth
leiden | boston
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Cover illustration: Georg Friedrich Kersting, Auf Vorposten (The Outpost), painting, 1815.
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Contents
Acknowledgments  vii
List of Illustrations  viii
Notes on Contributors  iX
Introduction: Nationalism before the Nation State  1
Dagmar Paulus and Ellen Pilsworth
Part 1
Eighteenth-Century Debates and Dilemmas
1 Johann Joachim Spalding’s 1778 Kriegs-Gebeth: Church Prayers
(Kirchengebete), War Prayers (Kriegsgebete), and the Patriotic and National
Discourse in Late Eighteenth-Century Germany  9
Johannes Birgfeld
2 Enlightenment Dilemmas: Nationalism and War in Rudolph Zacharias
Becker’s Mildheimisches Liederbuch (1799/1815)  32
Ellen Pilsworth
Part 2
Germany and “Other” Stories: Defining the Nation from Outside
3 “No sensuous requirement that might not be satisfied here to surfeit”:
Heinrich von Kleist and Friedrich Schlegel Constructing the German
Nation in Paris  57
Caroline Mannweiler
4 Femininity, Nation, and Nature: Fanny Tarnow’s Letters to Friends from a
Journey to Petersburg (1819)  76
Dagmar Paulus
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vi Contents
Part 3
German-Jewish Voices in the Nationalism Debate
5 Jews for Germany: Nineteenth-Century Jewish-German Intellectuals and
the Shaping of German National Discourse  99
Anita Bunyan
6 Moses Hess: One Socialist Proto-Zionist’s Reception of Nationalisms in the
Nineteenth Century  121
Alex Marshall
Part 4
Looking Back, Looking Forward: Nineteenth-Century Contests of
Memory and Progress
7 Nationalism, Regionalism, and Liberalism in the Literary Representation of
the Anti-Napoleonic “Wars of Liberation,” 1813–71  147
Dirk Göttsche
8 Learning from France: Ludwig Börne in the 1830s  171
Ernest Schonfield
Index  195
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Acknowledgments
Our thanks go to each of the contributors to this volume, as well as to all who
participated in the conference at University College London in 2017, from
which this book takes its title. We are grateful to University College London for
funding that conference, and to the University of Reading for generous finan-
cial assistance during the final stage of this book’s publication.
We would also like to thank colleagues at University College London, the
University of Bristol, and the University of Reading for their support through-
out this process. In particular, thanks go to Professor Susanne Kord for her
encouragement at the conference stage, to Professor Robert Vilain for advice
on our book proposal, and to Dr Sophie Payne for compiling the index. Finally,
we thank the team at Brill for their assistance at all stages of publication.
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Illustrations
Figures
1.1 Johann Joachim Spalding: Kriegs-Gebeth, anonymous print most likely from
1778, front side. Source: Original document in the private property of the
author  21
1.2 Johann Joachim Spalding: Kriegs-Gebeth, anonymous print most likely from
1778, reverse side. Source: Original document in the private property of the
author  22
4.1 The Styrian Tableau of Nationalities, early eighteenth century. Source: Public
domain  83
Table
2.1 The texts contributed by Becker in Mildheimisches Liederbuch (1799 and
1815). Source: Häntzschel’s list of contributors in Mildheimisches Liederbuch:
Faksimiledruck (47*)  39
Notes on Contributors
Johannes Birgfeld
studied in Hamburg, London, and Bamberg, before completing his Ph.D. at the
University of Saarbrücken in 2009. This work was printed in 2012 as Krieg und
Aufklärung, a two-volume study of German speaking literature’s reaction to
war experiences between 1700 and 1800. He has taught German literature after
1500 at the universities of Bamberg (1999–2003), Oxford (2006/07), and
Saarbrücken (2003–present). His main areas of research are German literature
of the eighteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries, war and literature in
the eighteenth century, and the history of theatre and drama in German from
1500 to today. He has published on a wide spectrum of writers and issues.
Anita Bunyan
is a Fellow and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Gonville and
Caius College, Cambridge. She works on Modern Jewish-German and Jewish-
Austrian cultural history and has published most recently on nineteenth-
century authors such as Heinrich Heine and Berthold Auerbach, and on con-
temporary writers Henryk Broder and Robert and Eva Menasse.
Dirk Göttsche
is Professor of German at the University of Nottingham; Dr phil Münster 1986
(Die Produktivität der Sprachkrise in der modernen Prosa, 1987), Habilitation
Münster 1999 (Zeit im Roman: Literarische Zeitreflexion und die Geschichte des
Zeitromans im späten 18. und im 19. Jahrhundert, 2001). He is a member of the
Academia Europaea, Honorary President of the International Raabe-Society,
and Principal Investigator of the Leverhulme International Research Network
“Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism(s) in Global Comparative
Perspective” (2016–19). Further book publications include: Zeitreflexion und
Zeitkritik im Werk Wilhelm Raabes (2000), Kleine Prosa in Moderne und Gegen-
wart (2006), Remembering Africa: The Rediscovery of Colonialism in Contempo-
rary German Literature (2013), Realism and Romanticism in German Literature
(ed. with Nicholas Saul, 2013), Raabe-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung (ed.
with Florian Krobb and Rolf Parr, 2016), Handbuch Postkolonialismus und Lit-
eratur (ed. with Axel Dunker and Gabriele Dürbeck, 2017).
Caroline Mannweiler
After earning her Ph.D. with a thesis on Samuel Beckett’s oeuvre (L’éthique
becketienne et sa réalisation dans la forme), Caroline Mannweiler joined the
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