British Romanticism and Denmark

Cian Duffy is professor and chair of English literature at Lund University, Sweden. He has authored monographs, scholarly and collected editions, chapters, articles and internet media dealing with various aspects of the intellectual life and cultural history of Britain during the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Recent publications include Romantic Norths: Anglo-Nordic Exchanges, 1770-1842 (ed.; Palgrave, 2017) and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poetry and Prose (ed. with Jack Donovan; Penguin 2017).

• AcknowledgementsSelect ChronologyIntroduction: ‘The country of our ancestors’1. ‘One of the finest capitals of Europe’: some British Romantic views of Copenhagen2. ‘The dwelling-place of a mighty people’: travellers beyond Copenhagen3. ‘A mine yet to be explored’: Romanticism and Anglo-Danish literary exchanges4. ‘The brothers of Englishmen’: British reflections on the Danish national character5. ‘No trifling kingdom’: Anglo-Danish politics beyond the Revolutionary and Napoleonic WarsCoda: The ‘German’ OehlenschlägerAppendices Bibliography

Written in a clear, engaging style and scrupulously researched, this fascinating study maps hitherto largely neglected British engagements with Denmark between the 1770s and 1820s. Recovering unfamiliar material, the book sheds new light on the cultural history of Britain during the Romantic period and is an important addition to ongoing scholarship on border-crossing interactions between individual national romanticisms.