Contents
Introduction
Idealized States
Mountains of Cheese and Rivers of Wine: Paesi di Cuccagna and Other Gastronomic Utopias
Prefaced Space: Tales of the Colonial British Collectors of Indian Folklore
Working the Railways, Constructing Navvy Identity
Demonized States
“Who Talks of My Nation?” The Role of Wales, Scotland, and Ireland in Constructing “Englishness”
The Turkish German Self: Displacing German-German Conflict in Orientalist Street Ballads
Embodied States
Bovine Bodies and the Domestication of the Human Mind
“The Poppy Blossom from My Native Land” The Married Woman as Exile in Latvian Folk Poetry
Contributors
Index