This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.

This volume offers detailed accounts of the cults of individual writers and a comparative perspective on the spread of centenary fever across Europe. It offers a fascinating insight into the interaction between literature and cultural memory, and the entanglement between local, national and European identities at the highpoint of nation-building.

List of Illustrations Preface Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Fanning out from Shakespeare; Ann Rigney and Joep Leerssen 1. Schiller 1859: Literary Historicism and Readership Mobilization; Joep Leerssen 2. Burns 1859: Embodied Communities and Transnational Federation; Ann Rigney 3. Scott 1871: Celebration as Cultural Diplomacy; Ann Rigney 4. Moore 1879: Ireland, America, Australia; Ronan Kelly 5. Dante 1865: The Politics and Limits of Aesthetic Education; Mahnaz Yousefzadeh 6. Petrarch 1804-1904: Nation-Building and Glocal Identities; Harald Hendrix 7. Petrarch 1874: Pan-National Celebrations and Provençal Regionalism; Francesca Zantedeschi 8. Voltaire 1878: Commemoration and the Creation of Dissent; François Boudrot 9. Vondel 1867: Amsterdam-Netherlands, Protestant-Catholic; Joep Leerssen 10. Conscience 1883: Between Flanders and Belgium; An De Ridder 11. Pushkin 1880: Fedor Doestoevsky Voices the Russian Self-Image; Neil Stewart 12. Prešeren 1905: Ritual Afterlives and Slovenian Nationalism; Marijan Dovi? 13. Mácha, Pet?fi, Mickiewicz: (Un)wanted Statues in East-Central Europe; John Neubauer 14. Cervantes 1916: Literature as Exquisite Neutrality; Clara Calvo 15. Whose Camões? Canons, Celebrations, Colonialism; Paulo de Medeiros Index