Schleswig-Holstein meerumschlungen and the call for nationalism: National identity under construction on the German and Danish border in selected works by Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, and Herman Bang
[Thesis]
;supervisor: Helfer, Martha
Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick: United States -- New Jersey
: 2012
235 Pages
Ph.D.
My dissertation examines selected German and Danish literary texts of the late nineteenth century that employ ideological notions of nationalism for the purpose of constructing and stabilizing national identity. The groundwork for the research centers on specific times in nationalist movements in Europe and a specific setting on the border region of Schleswig-Holstein. The urgency of this project lies especially in the effort to understand the shifting qualities and perceptions of nationalism as both a destructive and productive force in current discourses of globalization