Maarten De Pourcq is Professor of European Literature at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.Sophie Levie is Professor emeritus of Literary and Cultural Studies at Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands.

• General introduction; Part I Antiquity; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. Travelling in Greek and Roman literature; Chapter 3. Experiencing life and love; Chapter 4. Performing culture; Chapter 5. Making literature; Chapter 6. Remembering the past; Part II Middle Ages; Chapter 7. Introduction; Chapter 8. Desiring; Chapter 9 Searching for the Grail; Chapter 10 Reaching salvation; Chapter 11. Telling tales; Chapter 12 Self-fashioning; Part III Early modern period; Chapter 13 Introduction; Chapter 14 Staging; Chapter 15 Reading; Chapter 16 Exploring new worlds; Chapter 17 Corresponding; Chapter 18 Educating; Part IV. The long nineteenth century; Chapter 19 Introduction; Chapter 20 Feeling; Chapter 21 Defining the nation; Chapter 22 Circulating traditions; Chapter 23 Selling literature; Chapter 24 Emancipating; Part V. The modern era; Chapter 25 Introduction; Chapter 26 Breaking boundaries; Chapter 27 Ordering chaos; Chapter 28 Marketing literature; Chapter 29 Writing the city; Chapter 30 CHanging Europe; Bibliography; Index of terms; Index of authors and works

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