The medium is the message Historical heroes in Flemish lyrical dramas of the nineteenth century (1830-1914)
This paper focuses on Flemish lyrical dramas of the nineteenth Books century with historical protagonists, both political figures and artists.It investigates how these lyrical dramas contributed to the discursive construction of a national, Belgian and a subnational, Flemish identity through the use (or manipulation) of the past, and how historical