Asko Nivala: “Catastrophic Revolution and the Rise of Romantic Bildung”, Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe. Eds. Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Jukka Sarjala. Routledge, New York 2015, pp. 19-37, PREVIEW / ORDER. I discuss the rise of Romantic ‘Bildung’ at the turn of the nineteenth century with a special emphasis on Friedrich Schlegel, but referring also to other famous Romantics such as William Wordsworth and Novalis (Friedrich von Hardenberg, 1772–1801).

Hannu Salmi, Asko Nivala, Jukka Sarjala (eds.): Travelling Notions of Culture in Early Nineteenth-Century Europe. Routledge, New York 2015, PREVIEW / ORDER. The notions of culture and civilization are at the heart of European self-image. This book focuses on how space and spatiality contributed to defining the concepts of culture and civilization and, conversely, what kind of spatial ramifications ‘culture’ and ‘civilization’ entailed. These questions have vital importance to the understanding of this formative period of modern Europe.