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
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.