Abstract

Prelude: war, culture and memory Introduction: revisiting the wars against Napoleon Part I. A History of Defeat, Crisis and Victory: 1. The defeat of 1806 and its aftermath 2. Reform and revenge: political responses 3. Liberation and restoration: the wars of 1813-15 and their legacy Conclusion Part II. Discourses on the Nation, War and Gender: 4. Mobilizing public opinion: propaganda, media and war 5. Defining the nation: belonging and exclusion 6. Debating war: the military, warfare and masculinity 7. Regulating participation: patriotism, citizenship and gender Conclusion Part III. Collective Practices of De/mobilization and Commemoration: 8. Military service: mobilizing militiamen and volunteers 9. War charity: patriotic women's associations 10. De/mobilizing society: patriotic-national celebrations and rituals 11. Honoring and commemorating war heroes: the cult of death for the fatherland Conclusion Part IV. Literary Market, History and War Memories: 12. Politics, market and media: the development of a culture-consuming national public 13. Inventing history: nostalgia, historiography and memory 14. Remembering the past: the Napoleonic wars in autobiographies and war memoirs Conclusion Part V. Novels, Memory and Politics: 15. Re-creating the past: the time of the anti-Napoleonic wars in novels 16. Hopefulness and disappointment: novels of the Restoration era and the Vormarz 17. Critique, desire and glory: novels of the Nachmarz and the German Empire Conclusion Epilogue: Historicizing war and memory, 2013-1813-1913.

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