Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region: <i>the Production of Loss</i>

A sense of loss is a driving force in most nationalist movements: territorial loss, the loss of traditions, language, national virtues or of a Golden Age. But which emotions charged the construction of loss and how did they change over time? To what objects and bodies did emotions stick? How was the production of loss gendered? Which figures of loss predated nationalist ideology and enabled loss within nationalist discourse? 13 scholars from different backgrounds answer these questions by exploring nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region through political writings, lectures, novels, letters, paintings, and diaries. Contributors are: Eve Annuk, Jenny Bergenmar, Anna Bohlin, Jens Grandell, Heidi Grönstrand, Maciej Janowski, Jules Kielmann, Tiina Kinnunen, Kristina Malmio, Peter Nørgaard Larsen, Martin Olin, Jens Eike Schnall, and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen. Contents Acknowledgements Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Production of Loss Part 1: The Production of Loss Organising Thought Chapter 1. Loss, Emotion, and Transformation of a National Idea: Poland 1795–1815 Chapter 2. Visions of the Nation and Feelings of Loss in the Works of Steen Steensen Blicher Chapter 3. Neglect, Grief, Revenge: Finland in Swedish Nineteenth-Century Literature Chapter 4. How a Culture Was Almost Lost: The Sámi in Nineteenth-Century Conceptualisations of Finnish Nationhood Part 2: Landscapes and Bodies Activating the Production of Loss Chapter 5. Entrenchments and Escape Routes: Expressing a Sense of Loss in Danish Art 1848–1864 Chapter 6. Outreach, Invasion, Displacement: Denmark's Disputed Southern Borderland as Negotiated through Strategic and Affective Aspects of Space in Novels by Andersen and Bang Chapter 7. Affective Bodies on the Move: Space, Emotions and Loss in Fredrika Runeberg's Historical Novel Lady Catharina Boije and her Daughters Chapter 8. Carl Larsson's Spadarfvet, My Little Farmstead: Paradise Regained or Lament for a Disappearing Agrarian Society? Chapter 9. Sweden and Algeria in the Travel Writing of Anna Maria Roos, 1905–1909 Part 3: Personal Loss and Lived Nationalism Chapter 10. ``Thus Shall Our Joy Be Solemn, and Our Pain Fruitful'': Nation, Loss and the Power of Emotions in Amalie von Helvig's Writings Chapter 11. The Sense of Loss in the Context of Language Disputes in Finland: Reflections on E.F. Jahnsson's Authorship Chapter 12. Nationalism, Emotions and Loss in Lilli Suburg's Short Story ``Liina'' Chapter 13. Alexandra Gripenberg and Lost Faith in National Belonging Index "A sense of loss is a driving force in most nationalist movements: territorial loss, the loss of traditions, language, national virtues of a Golden Age. But which emotions charged the construction of loss and how did they change over time? To what objects and bodies did emotions stick? How was the production of loss gendered? Which figures of loss predated nationalist ideology and enabled loss within nationalist discourse? 13 scholars from different backgrounds answer these questions, by exploring nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region through political writings, lectures, novels, letters, paintings, and diaries. Contributors are: Eve Annuk, Jenny Bergenmar, Anna Bohlin, Jens Grandell, Heidi Grönstrand, Maciej Janowski, Jules Kielmann, Tiina Kinnunen, Kristina Malmio, Peter Nørgaard Larsen, Martin Olin, Jens Eike Schnall, and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen"-- Provided by publisher