This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms’ Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern Europe.
Author(s): Terry Gunnell
Series: National Cultivation of Culture, 30
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 609
City: Leiden
Contents
Illustrations, Diagrams and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1. Topo-narratives
Chapter 2. The Grimm Brothers’ Deutsche Sagen: Collection Plan, Sources, Critiques, Reception
Chapter 3. The Accidental Folklorist: Thiele’s Collection of Danish Folk Legends in Early Nineteenth-Century Denmark
Chapter 4. “You Can Therefore Rightly See These Folk Legends as a Reflection of Your Own!”: The Grimm Brothers and the Norwegian Collector of Folk Legends, Andreas Faye
Chapter 5. Mapping the Knowledge Network of the Norwegian Folklore Collector Peter Christen Asbjørnsen in the Nineteenth Century
Chapter 6. Treue und Wahrheit: Asbjørnsen and Moe and the Scientification of Folklore in Norway
Chapter 7. Gunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius and the Svenska sägner That Never Appeared
Chapter 8. George Stephens: An Unlikely Conduit
Chapter 9. Pioneers: Thomas Crofton Croker and the Brothers Grimm
Chapter 10. The Grimms, Scotland and “This New Science of ‘Storyology’”
Chapter 11. Considered Trifles: English Grimmians
Chapter 12. The Royal Society of Northern Antiquaries and V. U. Hammershaimb’s Collections of Faroese Folk Legends
Chapter 13. Konrad Maurer: Cultural Conduit and Collector
Chapter 14. Jón Árnason and the Collection of Icelandic Folk Legends: Ripples, Flotsam, Nets and Reflections
Chapter 15. The Grimms and Folklore Collection in Estonia in the Mid-nineteenth Century
Chapter 16. The Grimm Brothers and the Quest for Legends in Nineteenth-Century Finnish Folklore Studies
Chapter 17. Oskar Rancken, Swedish-Language Folklore Collection in Finland and the Grimm Ripples
Bibliography
Index
