Ballad Revival in Romantic-era Britain, Germany and Scandinavia

Lis Møller is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has authored and co-authored monographs, book chapters and articles on various aspects of Romantic-era Scandinavian, British, and German literature and culture. Most recently, she has co-authored the first comprehensive monograph on medievalism in Danish romantic literature, Middelalderisme I dansk romantisk litteratur (2023) and written the chapter on ‘Literatures of the North’ in The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature edited by Patrick Vince (2023).

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ballads across BordersPart I. Antiquarian Border Crossings1. Reframing the Ballad2. Defining the Ballad3. Historicising the BalladPart II. Poetic Border Crossings4. Bürger-mania5. Danish Ballads of Magic across Borders6. Ballads in(to) NovelsBibliographyIndex

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