Family Portraits: Gendered Images of the Nation in Nineteenth Century Hungary
Family Portraits: Gendered Images of the Nation in Nineteenth Century Hungary

Summary/Abstract: What is the nation, and how do we know it? We have come to know the nation by the arguments weighed in its defense. We have come to imagine these new worlds through complex images and dense symbols. And we have come to live new social relationships through radical transformations of European society, culture, and political economy. The project of constructing new communities was achieved in part by hard-fought battles, political and social; yet new communities were also created through images which conveyed succinctly the moral imperative and natural wisdom of change. Throughout the nineteenth century, intellectuals and artists all across Europe formulated visions of nationhood: in political tracts, academic tomes, pictures, sculpture, architecture, music, poems, and most of all perhaps, in novels. [...]

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