Classical heritage and European identities : : the imagined geographies of Danish classicism / / Lærke Maria Andersen Funder, Troels Myrup Kristensen and Vinnie Nørskov.

This book examines how different agents and institutions within the Danish nation state have situated themselves within this complex landscape of competing appropriations of classical antiquity from the eighteenth century to the present day. In particular, it focuses on the use of classical heritage...

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Place / Publishing House:London ;, New York : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2019.
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Critical Heritages of Europe
Physical Description:1 online resource (135 pages).
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Summary:This book examines how different agents and institutions within the Danish nation state have situated themselves within this complex landscape of competing appropriations of classical antiquity from the eighteenth century to the present day. In particular, it focuses on the use of classical heritages to construct both European and national identities (in the plural) and especially on how Danes in this period have engaged with a sense of European commonality through their engagements with the classical past
ISBN:0429847939
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Lærke Maria Andersen Funder, Troels Myrup Kristensen and Vinnie Nørskov.