List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction, Joep Leerssen I. THE APPROPIATION OF THE PAST1. The Melancholy of History: Disenchantment and the Possibility of Narrative after the French Revolution, Peter Fritzsche 2. The Emancipation of the Past, as due to the Revolutionary French Ideology of Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité, Marita Mathijsen 3. Modernising the Past: The Life of the Gauls under the French Republic, Anne-MarieThiesse 4. From Bökendorf to Berlin: Private Careers, Public Sphere, and how the Past changed in Jacob Grimm's Lifetime, Joep Leerssen II. MONUMENTS FOR THE PAST5. Public Commemorations and Private Interests: The Politics of State Funerals in London and Paris, 1806-1810, Eveline G.

Bouwers 6. Inventing Literary Heritage: National Consciousness and Editorial Scholarship in Sweden 1810-1830, Paula Henrikson 7. Literature as Access to the Past: The Rise of Historical Genres in the Netherlands, 1800-1850, Lotte Jensen III. A PUBLIC FOR THE PAST8. Free Access to the History of Art: Art Reproduction and the Appropiation of the History of Art in the Nineteenth-Century Culture, R.M. Verhoogt 9. Potgieter's 'Rijksmuseum' and the Public Presentation of Dutch History in the National Museum (1800-1844), Ellinoor Bergvelt 10.

Singing of Conquest? Opera, History, and the Ambiguities of European Imperialism, Peter Rietbergen 11. Nineteenth-Century National Opera and Representations of the Past in the Public Sphere, Krisztina Lajosi 12. 'Reaping the Harvest of the Experiment?' The Government's Attempt to train Enlightened Citizens through History Education in Revolutionary France (1789-1802), Matthias Meirlaen IV. PAST AND PRESENT13. The Past as a Place: Challenging Private Ownership of History in the United States, Sharon Ann Holt 14. Impressed Images / Expressed Experiences: The Historical Imagination of Politics, Susanne Legêne BibliographyIndex.