Titelaufnahme

Introduction: the Rhine, Europe's frontier, Europe's dreamland: transnational destination, inspiration, disputation -- Part I. Case studies in geopolitics, romanticism and travel -- Victor Hugo's Le Rhin: French national perspectives on a European river / Manfred Beller -- The symbolical and political investment of the Rhine: a Dutch perspective / Joep Leerssen -- Italian travellers in the Rhineland in the first half of the nineteenth century / Giovanna Cermelli -- English middle-rhine tourism in late-eighteenth and nineteenth-century literature / Hans Werner Breunig -- North American travellers in the Rhine Valley: revisions of their perspectives on the landscape and on sites of memory in the contested region -- Waldemar zacharasiewicz -- Goethe's art travels in the Rhine regions 1814-1817 and his concept of decentralized collections / Helmut J. Schneider -- Restored future: a panorama of the castles, churches and monuments on the confluence of Rhine and Nahe / Manfred Beller -- The Rhine as a symbol: aspects, meanings and functionalization of a memory landscape / Elmar Scheuren -- The Walhalla: Bavarian Integration Monument, Germanic Hall of Fame, expression of European patronage / Reinhard Baumann -- Part II. A history of appropriations -- From the Meuse to the Rhine: a disputed region in French and German atlases and encyclopaedias / Manfred Beller -- The never-ending stream: cultural mobilization over the Rhine / Joep Leerssen -- Literary appropriations of the Rhine: a German-French repertory, 1814-1925