Extended Deadline: CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE REGION IN TRANSNATIONAL CONTEXTS, c. 1840-1940

“Aardappelrooiers,” Anton Mauve (c. 1848-1888), Coloured Pencil,340 × 458 mm, Rijksmuseum, SK-A-2446. The nineteenth century witnessed an upsurge of representations of the region across Europe and North America, in media ranging from literary fiction to the illustrated periodical and from visual arts to architecture. The rise of regionalism has often been linked to nationalism and nation-building. As …