Commemorating writers in nineteenth-century Europe : nation-building and centenary fever / edited by Joep Leerssen, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Ann Rigney, Professor of Comparative Literature, Utrecht University, Netherlands.

Contents: Introduction: Fanning out from Shakespeare / Ann Rigney and Joep Leerssen -- 1 Schiller 1859: literary historicism and readership mobilization / Joep Leerssen -- 2 Burns 1859: embodies 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 global identities / Harald Hendrix -- 7 Petrarch 1874: pan-national celebrations and provencal regionalism / Francesca Zantedeschi -- 8 Voltaire 1878: commemoration and the creation of dissent / Pierre Boudrot -- 8 Vondel 1867: Amsterdam-Netherlands, Protestant-Catholic / Loep Leerssen -- 10 Conscience 1883: between Flanders and Belgium / An De Ridder -- 11 Pushkin 1880: Fedor Dostoevsky voices of the Russian self-image / Neil Stewart -- 12 Preseren 1905: Ritual afterlives and Slovenian nationalism / Marijan Dovic -- 14 Macha, Petofi, Mickiewicz: (un)wanted statues in East-Central Europe / John Neubauer -- 14 Cervantes 1916: literature as 'Exquisite neutrality' / Clara Calvo -- 15 Whose Camoes? Canons, celebrations, colonialism / Paulo de Medeiros -- Index.