Folklore and Nationalism in Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century

The 17 papers in this collection are from two events: a September 2007 conference in Sheffield on the European folk revival 1760-1914, and an April 2008 workshop in Oxford on the transition from folk culture to national culture. Among the topics are shaping the voice of the people in 19th-century operas, folk culture at world's fairs and the reinvention of the nation, folklore as a weapon of national identity in German-annexed Alsace 1890-1914, establishing the Folk-Lore Society in London, oral traditions and the making of the Finnish nation, and identity and scientific cultures in a new discipline. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Timothy Baycroft, PhD (Cambridge), is Senior Lecturer in French History at the University of Sheffield. He has published widely on regionalism and nationalism in France and Europe, as well as border studies, including France: Inventing the Nation (Arnold, 2008).David Hopkin, PhD (Cambridge) is Fellow and Tutor in History at Hertford College, University of Oxford. He has published extensively on oral culture and the relationship between folklore and history, including Voices of the People in Nineteenth Century France (Cambridge University Press, 2012).