The Matica and Beyond: Cultural Associations and Nationalism in Europe
Edited by Krisztina Lajosi and Andreas Stynen
Nineteenth-century national movements perceived the nation as a community defined by language, culture and history. Part of the infrastructure to spread this view of the nation were institutions publishing literary and scientific texts in the national language. Starting with the Matica srpska (Pest, 1826), a particular kind of society was established in several parts of the Habsburg Empire – inspiring each other, but with often major differences in activities, membership and financing. Outside of the Slavic world analogues institutions played a similar key role in the early stages of national revival in Europe. The Matica and Beyond is the first concerted attempt to comparatively investigate both the specificity and commonality of these cultural associations, bringing together cases from differing regional, political and social circumstances.
Contributors are: Daniel Baric, Benjamin Bossaert, Marijan Dović, Liljana Gushevska, Jörg Hackmann, Roisín Higgins, Alfonso Iglesias Amorín, Dagmar Kročanová, Joep Leerssen, Marion Löffler, Philippe Martel, Alexei Miller, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Iryna Orlevych, Magdaléna Pokorná, Miloš Řezník, Jan Rock, Diliara M. Usmanova, and Zsuzsanna Varga.
Dr. Krisztina Lajosi is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European Culture at the Department of European Studies of the Universiteit van Amsterdam. Her research area is nationalism and transnationalism studies, focusing on the intersections between history, media and political thought.
Dr. Andreas Stynen is postdoctoral assistant at KU Leuven, Research Group for Cultural History since 1750. Mainly studying the history of urbanism and national movements, he has also published on musical culture, transatlantic migration and practices of remembrance.
Table of contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Joep Leerssen
1 The Buda University Press and National Awakenings in Habsburg Austria
Zsuzsanna Varga
2 The Matice Česká
Magdaléna Pokorná
3 The Slovak Matica, Its Precursors and Its Legacy
Benjamin Bossaert and Dagmar Kročanová
4 The Matica in an Ethnic-Regional Context: Sorbian Lusatia and Czech Silesia in Comparison
Miloš Řezník
5 The Slovenian Matica: The ‘Foundation-Stone’
Marijan Dović
6 Framing a Regional Matica, from Dalmatian to Croatian
Daniel Baric
7 Macedonian Societies in the Balkan Context
Liljana Gushevska
8 Language, Cultural Associations, and the Origins of Galician Nationalism, 1840–1918
Xosé M. Núñez Seixas and Alfonso Iglesias Amorín
9 Félibrige, or the Impossible Occitan Nation
Philippe Martel
10 Educational, Scholarly, and Literary Societies in Dutch-speaking Regions, 1766–1886
Jan Rock
11 A Century of Change: The Eisteddfod and Welsh Cultural Nationalism
Marion Löffler
12 “Racy of the Soil”: Young Ireland and the Cultural Production of Nationhood
Roisín Higgins
13 Competing National Movements: School Associations and Cultural Nationalism in the Baltic Region
Jörg Hackmann
14 The Galician-Ruthenian Matica (1848–1939)
Iryna Orlevych
15 Tatar Cultural and Educational Organizations and Charities: Muslim Self-Organization in the Russian Empire
Diliara M. Usmanova
Afterword: The Maticas in a World of Empires
Alexei Miller
Index
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