Romantic Norths: Anglo-Nordic exchanges 1700-1850

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This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in approach, but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre, discipline, mediation, cultural exchange, and comparative methodologies, these essays not only constitute a substantial and innovative contribution to scholarly understanding of the development of romanticisms and romantic nationalisms in Britain and the Nordic countries, but also describe a pattern of cultural encounter which was predicated upon exchange and a sense of commonality rather than upon the perception of difference or alterity which has so often been discerned by critical descriptions of British romantic-period engagements with non-British cultures. The volume ought to appeal to a broad and genuinely international academic audience with interests in eighteenth-century and romantic-period culture in Britain and Scandinavia as well as to undergraduates taking courses in eighteenth-century, romantic, and Scandinavian studies.;Romantic Norths; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction: 'the less known, but equally romantic, regions of the north'; Notes; 'Imaginary circles round the human mind': Bias and Openness in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796); A Few Facts about Mary Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian Journey; Lazy and Voluptuous: Mary Wollstonecraft on the Inhabitants of 'the North'; Wollstonecraft and the Politics of 'the North'; Wollstonecraft and Nature in 'the North'; Notes. Romantic Norths Acknowledgements Contents List of Figures Introduction: 'the less known, but equally romantic, regions of the north' Notes 'Imaginary circles round the human mind': Bias and Openness in Mary Wollstonecraft's Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) A Few Facts about Mary Wollstonecraft's Scandinavian Journey Lazy and Voluptuous: Mary Wollstonecraft on the Inhabitants of 'the North' Wollstonecraft and the Politics of 'the North' Wollstonecraft and Nature in 'the North' Notes. British Travellers Visiting Finland: from 'Enlightened' Expectations to 'Romantic' FulfilmentFinland and 'the North' Travellers to Finland Contrasting Positions: Nathaniel Wraxall and William Coxe Urban Life in Finland Impressions of Lapland: Consett and Clarke Clarke's Further Travels in Finland Passing Through: Carr, Porter, James For the Sake of Faith: Pinkerton and Paterson Conclusions Notes Constructing and Classifying 'the North': Linnaeus and Lapland Travelling to Lapland Terrains and tensions Lapland constructed Scientific, sensory and symbolic landscape. Narrated landscapeLapland remediated Conclusion Notes Inventing Jutland for the 'Golden Age': Danish Artists Guided by Sir Walter Scott Who was Martinus Rørbye? The Little Known Peninsula When did the Jutland heath become a motif in Danish art history? Scott Mania in Denmark Accompanied by Sir Walter Scott Beautiful, picturesque, and sublime N.L. Høyen and Walter Scott Other painters of the heath -- Jutland conquered Notes 'They dance all under the greenwood tree': British and Danish Romantic-Period Adaptations of Two Danish 'Elf Ballads' Gothicising 'Elverhøj' Fatal AttractionsNotes 'The North' and 'the East': The Odin Migration Theory The Making of a Cultural Paradigm Literary Reflections The Imagination of the Romance Tradition Conclusion Notes 'These children of nature': Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Danish Imaginings of Greenland Historical and Critical Background Master Narratives of Greenland Bernhard Severin Ingemann and Greenland Kunnuk og Naja and the Discourse of Greenland The Reception of Ingemann's Novel Conclusion Notes. Locating Norway in 'the North': the Cultural Geography of Norway in Strickland's 'Arthur Ridley or, a Voyage to Norway' (1826) and Andersen's 'Elverhøi' (1845) Why Norway, or the Importance of Exchange Generational Conflict and Cultural Exchange Representing Norway: Building on Exchange Conclusion Notes A 'remote and cheerless possession': Early Nineteenth-Century British Imaginings of Newfoundland Newfoundland and 'the North' Newfoundland and the British Imagination Notes Coda: Comparing the Literature of 'the North' -- William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen Notes Bibliography.