Journal article
Romantic nationalism: history and illusion in Ireland
- Abstract:
- Intellectual historians often invoke “romanticism” to account for the origins and conceptual shape of nationalism. In an Irish context, however, this approach has yielded false genealogies of influence and an impaired political understanding. Cast through a “romantic” prism, nationalism is divorced from its conditions of intelligibility, becoming unhelpfully isolated from questions about sovereignty, democratic legitimacy and the nature of modern citizenship. Thus all too often the irrationality that is made part of the definition of “romantic nationalism” is a function of the way that it is interpreted.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1017/S1479244315000451
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
- Journal:
- Modern Intellectual History More from this journal
- Volume:
- 14
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 717-745
- Publication date:
- 2015-12-23
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1479-2451
- ISSN:
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1479-2443
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pubs:609915
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pubs:609915
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609915
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2015
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- Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Cambridge University Press at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244315000451
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