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The emphasis on vernacular language and the collection of local Box1 folklorewasnotjusttorecoveranancientnationalspirit,butalsoto The Grimm Brothers: Folktales and carrythemodernnationalistmessagetolargeaudienceswhowere mostlyilliterate.Thiswasespeciallysointhecaseof Poland,which Nation-building Grimms’ Fairy Talisafamiliar name. The brothers had been partitioned at the end of the eighteenth century by the Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were born in the GreatPo wers–Russia,PrussiaandAustria.EventhoughPolandno German city of Hanau in 1785 and 1786 longerexistedasanindependentterritory,nationalfeelingswerekept respectively. While both of them studied law, alive through music and language. Karol Kurpinski, for example, they soon developed an interest in collecting old folktales. They spent six years travelling from celebratedthenationalstrugglethroughhisoperasandmusic,turning village to village, talking to people and writing folkdanceslikethepolonaiseandmazurkaintonationalistsymbols. down fairy tales, which were handed down through the generations. These were popular both among children and adults. In 1812, they Language too played an important role in developing nationalist sentiments.AfterRussianoccupation,thePolishlanguagewasforced published their first collection of tales. Subsequently, both the brothers became active outofschoolsandtheRussianlanguagewasimposedeverywhere. in liberal politics, especially the movement In1831,anarmedrebellionagainstRussianruletookplacewhich for freedom of the press. In the meantime they also published a 33-volume dictionary of the wasultimatelycrushed.Followingthis,manymembersof theclergy German language. inPolandbegantouselanguageasaweaponof nationalresistance. The Grimm brothers also saw French domination PolishwasusedforChurchgatheringsandallreligiousinstruction. as a threat to German culture, and believed that Asaresult,alargenumberofpriestsandbishopswereputinjailor the folktales they had collected were expressions of a pure and authentic German spirit. They sent to Siberia by the Russian authorities as punishment for their considered their projects of collecting folktales refusaltopreachinRussian.Theuseof Polishcametobeseenasa and developing the German language as part of symbolof thestruggleagainstRussiandominance. the wider effort to oppose French domination and create a German national identity. 3.2 Hunger, Hardship and Popular Revolt The1830swereyearsofgreateconomichardshipinEurope.The first half of the nineteenth century saw an enormous increase in Discuss population all over Europe. In most countries there were more Discuss the importance of language and seekers of jobs than employment. Population from rural areas popular traditions in the creation of national migratedtothecitiestoliveinovercrowdedslums.Smallproducers identity. in towns were often faced with stiff competition from imports of cheapmachine-madegoodsfromEngland,whereindustrialisation p r wasmoreadvancedthanonthecontinent.Thiswasespeciallysoin E textileproduction,whichwascarriedoutmainlyinhomesorsmall i workshops and was only partly mechanised. In those regions of Europewherethearistocracystillenjoyedpower,peasantsstruggled s l undertheburdenof feudalduesandobligations.Theriseof food n prices or a year of bad harvest led to widespread pauperism in t a townandcountry. N Theyear1848wasonesuch year.Foodshortagesandwidespread unemployment brought the population of Paris out on the roads. Barricades were erected and Louis Philippe was forced to flee. A 15 Reprint 2026-27