Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region: The Production of Loss

A sense of loss is a driving force in most nationalist movements: territorial loss, the loss of traditions, language, national virtues or of a Golden Age. But which emotions charged the construction of loss and how did they change over time? To what objects and bodies did emotions stick? How was the production of loss gendered? Which figures of loss predated nationalist ideology and enabled loss within nationalist discourse? 13 scholars from different backgrounds answer these questions by exploring nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region through political writings, lectures, novels, letters, paintings, and diaries.

Contributors are: Eve Annuk, Jenny Bergenmar, Anna Bohlin, Jens Grandell, Heidi Grönstrand, Maciej Janowski, Jules Kielmann, Tiina Kinnunen, Kristina Malmio, Peter N rgaard Larsen, Martin Olin, Jens Eike Schnall, and Bjarne Thorup Thomsen.

Anna Bohlin, Ph.D. (2008), Umeå University, is Associate Professor of Nordic Literature at the University of Bergen. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Tracing the Jerusalem Code III. The Promised Land: Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (c.1750-c.1920) (de Gruyter 2021).

Tiina Kinnunen, Ph.D. (2000), University of Tampere, is Professor of Finnish and Northern European History at the University of Oulu. Her recent publications include ＂Feminist Biography in Finland and Sweden around 1900: Creation of Bonds of Gratitude and Admiration,＂ in Erinnern, vergessen, umdeuten?(Campus, 2019).

Heidi Grönstrand, Ph.D. (2005), University of Turku, is Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic and Baltic languages, Finnish, Dutch and German at Stockholm University. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders: Multilingualism in Northern European Literature (Routledge, 2020).