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Introduction / Joep Leerssen -- pt. 1. The Appropriation of the Past -- 1. The Melancholy of History: Disenchantment and the Possibility of Narrative after the French Revolution / Peter Fritzsche -- 2. The Emancipation of the Past, as due to the Revolutionary French Ideology of Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite / Marita Mathijsen -- 3. Modernising the Past: The Life of the Gauls under the French Republic / Anne-Marie Thiesse -- 4. From Bokendorf to Berlin: Private Careers, Public Sphere, and How the Past Changed in Jacob Grimm's Lifetime / Joep Leerssen -- pt. 2. Monuments for the Past -- 5. Public Commemorations and Private Interests: The Politics of State Funerals in London and Paris, 1806-1810 / Eveline G. Bouwers -- 6. Inventing Literary Heritage: National Consciousness and Editorial Scholarship in Sweden, 1810-1830 / Paula Henrikson -- 7. Literature as Access to the Past: The Rise of Historical Genres in the Netherlands, 1800-1850 / Lotte Jensen -- pt. 3. A Public for the Past -- 8. Free Access to the History of Art: Art Reproduction and the Appropriation of the History of Art in Nineteenth-Century Culture / R.M. Verhoogt -- 9. Potgieter's 'Rijksmuseum' and the Public Presentation of Dutch History in the National Museum (1800-1844) / Ellinoor Bergvelt -- 10. Singing of Conquest? Opera, History, and the Ambiguities of European Imperialism / Peter Rietbergen -- 11. Nineteenth-Century National Opera and Representations of the Past in the Public Sphere / Krisztina Lajosi -- 12. 'Reaping the Harvest of the Experiment?' The Government's Attempt to Train Enlightened Citizens through History Education in Revolutionary France (1789-1802) / Matthias Meirlaen -- pt. 4. Past and Present -- 13. The Past as a Place: Challenging Private Ownership of History in the United States / Sharon Ann Holt -- 14. Impressed Images/Expressed Experiences: The Historical Imagination of Politics / Susan Legene.