Project

Painting themselves: A transnational approach to national selfportraiture

Code

01J13813

Duration

01 March 2013 → 30 September 2018

Funding

Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund

Promotor

Elizabeth Amann

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- Comparative literature studies
- Literatures in Spanish

Keywords

panaromic literature comparative literature national self-portrait 19th Century Self-portraiture Art Media Literary studies Interculturalism

Project description

This project proposes a transnational approach to the national selfportraits published in the 1840s in Europe. National self-portraits were collaborative anthologies that attempted to capture the essence of a nation through the repreesentation of its consitutive types or scenes. This project examines how the intertextualities and international dialoque among these collections shaped the definition of national identity in the 1840s.