The Architectural Novel – The Construction of National Identities in Nineteenth–Century England and France: William Ainsworth, Victor Hugo, and Al

Scholars in disciplines from architecture and the fine arts, to the various branches of history and social studies, will find this study timely given contemporary European controversies over what constitutes national identity and what parts are played by race, philosophy and religion, economics, immigration, and invasion. Many major European national identities barely predate the nineteenth century and were shaped not just by wars, philosophies, industrial change, and governmental policies, but also... Zobrazit více