National Romanticism: The Formation of National Movements

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Table of Contents Introduction The ‘Identity Reader’ Project .............................................................................. 1 Miroslav Hroch: National Romanticism .............................................................. 4 Chapter I. Historicizing the Nation: Images of the Past, Continuity into the Present Dániel Berzsenyi: To the Hungarians ................................................................. 21 Joseph von Hormayr: Austria and Germany ....................................................... 27 Joachim Lelewel: Legitimacy of the Polish nation .............................................. 33 Mihail Kogălniceanu: Speech for the opening of the course on national history 42 František Palacký: A History of the Czech nation in Bohemia and Moravia ...... 50 Mihály Horváth: History of the Hungarian war of independence of 1848-1849 57 Jakub Malý: Our national rebirth ........................................................................ 65 Constantinos Paparrigopoulos: History of the Hellenic nation ........................... 72 Jovan Jovanović Zmaj: Bright graves, Grandfather and grandson .................... 81 Ivan Vazov: Under the yoke ................................................................................ 87 Namık Kemal: Ottoman history ........................................................................... 94 Chapter II. Spirit of the Nation: Customs, Language, Religion Josef Jungmann: Second conversation concerning the Czech language ............. 103 Vuk Stefanović Karadžić: Little Slavo-Serbian song book of the common people .............................................................................................................. 112 Ferenc Kölcsey: National traditions, Hymn ........................................................ 117 Maurycy Mochnacki: Thoughts on how the translation of foreign belles-lettres influences Polish literature ............................................................................. 126 Charles Sealsfield: Austria as it is ....................................................................... 132 Dimitrios Vyzantios: Babel, or the local distortion of the Greek language ....... 138 Henryk Rzewuski: Moral varieties ...................................................................... 143 Ľudovít Štúr: The Slovak dialect, or the necessity of writing in this dialect ....... 148 Jevrem Grujić and Milovan Janković: South Slavs, or the Serbian nation with the Croats and the Bulgarians ........................................................................ 154 viii Simion Bărnuţiu: The public law of the Romanians ............................................ 160 Dora D’Istria: The Albanian nationality on the basis of popular songs .............. 168 Osman Hamdi Bey and Victor Marie de Launay: The popular costumes of Turkey in 1873 ................................................................................................ 174 Stefan Verkovich: Veda Slovena ......................................................................... 181 Teodosij Gologanov: Letter on the renewal of the Archbishopric of Ohrid ....... 188 Mihai Eminescu: Political articles ...................................................................... 194 Chapter III. The Nationalization of Space Ján Kollár: The Daughter of Sláva ...................................................................... 205 Adam Mickiewicz: Pan Tadeusz ......................................................................... 211 István Széchenyi: Hunnia .................................................................................... 224 Ljudevit Gaj: Proclamations ............................................................................... 230 Ilija Garašanin: The draft ..................................................................................... 238 Ioannis Kolettis: Of this great idea ...................................................................... 244 Karel Havlíček Borovský: The Slav and the Czech ............................................. 249 Petition to the Emperor against the unification of Bohemia and Moravia ......... 255 Johann Majláth: An examination of the question: whether to annex the Carpathian Slavs and Ruthenians to the Magyars ................................................ 262 Lajos Kossuth: Proposal. Concerning the future political establishment of Hungary .......................................................................................................... 268 Alecu Russo: The song of Romania ..................................................................... 277 Petar Beron: Slavic philosophy ............................................................................ 284 Ahmed Midhat Efendi: The basis of reform ........................................................ 291 Sami Frashëri: Albania, what it was, what it is and what it will be? .................. 297 Chapter IV. The Nation and Its Neighbors in Europe: Problems of Coexistence Markos Renieris: What is Greece? West or East? .............................................. 307 Viktor von Andrian-Werburg: Austria and her future ........................................ 315 František Palacký: Letter to Frankfurt, 11 April 1848 ........................................ 322 Miklós Wesselényi: Oration on the matter of the Hungarian and Slavonic nationalities ..................................................................................................... 330 Janko Drašković: Dissertation, or Treatise ......................................................... 339 Ľudovít Šuhajda: Magyarism in Hungary ........................................................... 348 Lajos Mocsáry: Nationality ................................................................................. 354 Stefan Buszczyński: The future of Austria .......................................................... 361 Svetozar Miletić: The Eastern Question .............................................................. 366 Ion C. Brătianu: Nationality ................................................................................ 373 Memorandum of the Secret Central Bulgarian Committee ................................. 380 ix Chapter V. National Heroism: Revolution and Counter-Revolution Dositej Obradović: Rise, O Serbia ....................................................................... 391 Alexandros Ypsilantis: Fight for Faith and Motherland! ................................... 396 Dionysios Solomos: Hymn to Liberty .................................................................. 403 Adam Mickiewicz: Prophecies ............................................................................ 408 Henryk Kamieński: Vital truths of the Polish nation .......................................... 421 Petar II Petrović Njegoš: The mountain wreath .................................................. 428 Franz Grillparzer: Field-marshal Radetzky ......................................................... 436 Sándor Petőfi: National song ............................................................................... 440 Requests of the Slovak nation .............................................................................. 445 Jevrem Grujić: A vision of the state ..................................................................... 451 Zsigmond Kemény: After the revolution ............................................................. 455 Nicolae Bălcescu: The course of revolution in the history of the Romanians ..... 463 Hristo Botev: Hadji Dimiter, The hanging of Vasil Levski ................................. 473 Two Macedonian manifestos ............................................................................... 478 Namık Kemal: Motherland, or Silistra ................................................................ 486 Mehmed Akif: Hymn to Independence ................................................................ 494 ...