Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Oral Epic: The Nation Finds a Voice -- Shaping the Voice of the People in Nineteenth-Century Operas -- Folk Culture and Nation-Building in the Less than Developed World: A Study on the Visual Culture of Citizenship -- Ideas of Folk and Nation in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Architecture -- The Regional and the Global: Folk Culture at World's Fairs and the Reinvention of the Nation -- Ethnographic Display and Political Narrative: The Salle de France of the Musée d'ethnographie du Trocadéro -- Displaying the Arlésienne: Museums, Folklife and Regional Identity in France -- Folklore as a Weapon: National Identity in German-Annexed Alsace, 1890-1914 -- Negotiating Progress and Degeneracy: Irish Antiquaries and the Discovery of the 'Folk', 1770-1844 -- Narrating Scotland: Andrew Lang's Fairy Book Collection, The Gold of Fairnilee, and 'A Creelfull of Celtic Stories' -- England-The Land without Folklore? -- An Imperialist Folklore? Establishing the Folk-Lore Society in London -- The Ballad Revival and National Literature: Textual Authority and the Invention of Tradition -- National Folklore, National Drama and The Creation of Visual National Identity: The Case of Jón Árnason, Sigurður Guðmundsson and Indriði Einarsson in Iceland -- Oral Traditions and the Making of the Finnish Nation -- Sorrowful Folksong and Nationalism in Nineteenth-Century Finland -- Folklore beyond Nationalism: Identity Politics and Scientific Cultures in a New Discipline -- Further Reading -- Index.