Romantic Norths: Anglo-Nordic Exchanges, 1770-1842

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Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction: ‘the less known, but equally romantic, regions of the north’....Pages 1-27 ‘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)....Pages 29-51 British Travellers Visiting Finland: from ‘Enlightened’ Expectations to ‘Romantic’ Fulfilment....Pages 53-73 Constructing and Classifying ‘the North’: Linnaeus and Lapland....Pages 75-99 Inventing Jutland for the ‘Golden Age’: Danish Artists Guided by Sir Walter Scott....Pages 101-127 ‘They dance all under the greenwood tree’: British and Danish Romantic-Period Adaptations of Two Danish ‘Elf Ballads’....Pages 129-152 ‘The North’ and ‘the East’: The Odin Migration Theory....Pages 153-179 ‘These children of nature’: Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Danish Imaginings of Greenland....Pages 181-202 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)....Pages 203-229 A ‘remote and cheerless possession’: Early Nineteenth-Century British Imaginings of Newfoundland....Pages 231-249 Coda: Comparing the Literature of ‘the North’ – William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen....Pages 251-258 Back Matter....Pages 259-281