Contents

pp.：  5 – 8

List of Illustrations

pp.：  9 – 10

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  11 – 14

Introduction

pp.：  15 – 22

Part One The Appropriation of the Past

pp.：  23 – 24

The Melancholy of History: Disenchantment and the Possibility of Narrative after the French Revolution

pp.：  25 – 42

The Emancipation of the Past, as due to the Revolutionary French Ideology of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité

pp.：  43 – 64

Modernising the Past: The Life of the Gauls under the French Republic

pp.：  65 – 76

From Bökendorf to Berlin: Private Careers, Public Sphere, and How the Past Changed in Jacob Grimm's Lifetime

pp.：  77 – 92

Part Two Monuments for the Past

pp.：  93 – 94

Public Commemorations and Private Interests: The Politics of State Funerals in London and Paris, 1806–1810

pp.：  95 – 124

Inventing Literary Heritage: National Consciousness and Editorial Scholarship in Sweden, 1810–1830

pp.：  125 – 148

Literature as Access to the Past: The Rise of Historical Genres in the Netherlands, 1800–1850

pp.：  149 – 168

Part Three A Public for the Past

pp.：  169 – 170

Free Access to the History of Art: Art Reproduction and the Appropriation of the History of Art in Nineteenth-Century Culture

pp.：  171 – 192

Potgieter’s ‘Rijksmuseum’ and the Public Presentation of Dutch History in the National Museum (1800–1844)

pp.：  193 – 218

Singing of Conquest? Opera, History, and the Ambiguities of European Imperialism

pp.：  219 – 248

Nineteenth-Century National Opera and Representations of the Past in the Public Sphere

pp.：  249 – 268

‘Reaping the Harvest of the Experiment?’ The Government's Attempt to Train Enlightened Citizens through History Education in Revolutionary France (1789–1802)

pp.：  269 – 298

Part Four Past and Present

pp.：  299 – 300

The Past as a Place: Challenging Private Ownership of History in the United States

pp.：  301 – 312

Impressed Images/Expressed Experiences: The Historical Imagination of Politics

pp.：  313 – 338

Bibliography

pp.：  339 – 358

Index

pp.：  359 – 364