Authors in this volume. Introduction.
Annelies van HEES: N.M. Petersen and the Case of Denmark.
Egil TOERNQVIST: Henrik Schueck as Historiographer of Swedish Literature.
Klaus F. GILLE: Germanistik und Nation in the 19th Century.
George VIS: Literary Historiography in the Northern and Southern Netherlands between 1800 and 1830.
D. van der HORST: Jan Frans Willems: A Literary History for a new Nation.
Joep LEERSSEN: A la recherche d'une litterature perdue: Literary History, Irish Identity and Douglas Hyde.
Ton HOENSELAARS: A Taste of George Saintsbury: A Short History of English Literature (1898).
Menno SPIERING: The Englishness of English Literature and Literary History: The Lectures of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.
Ruud MEIJER: Travailler Pour La Patrie: Gustave Lanson, The Founder of French Academic Literary History I.
Manet van MONTFRANS: Travailler Pour La Patrie: Gustave Lanson, The Founder of Academic Literary History in France II.
Lily COENEN: M. Menendez Pelayo: Literary History in the Context of a Religious Question.
Fernando VENANCIO: 'Quick Fleeting Sketches': Literary History in Portugal in the 19th Century.
Lucas BRUYNING: From Tiraboschi to Francesco De Sanctis: Italian Literary History as a Legitimation of National Unity.
Dina ARISTODEMO: National Values and Literary Form in De Sanctis' History of Italian Literature.