Nordic Romanticism

Cian Duffy is Professor and Chair of English literature at Lund University, Sweden.Robert W. Rix is Associate Professor of English literature at Copenhagen University, Denmark.

• 1. The Elf-King: Translation, Transmission, and Transfiguration.- 2. The Echo of a Morning Song: The Biarkamál Fragments in Bertel Christian Sandvig’s Danish Songs from the Oldest Times (1779).- 3. Transnational Literature and the Monolingual Paradigm Around 1800: Friederike Brun and Jens Baggesen.- 4. ‘The Vanity of Translation’; or, Locating Adam Oehlenschläger in Romantic-Period Europe.- 5. Tracing the North in British Literature of the 1820s: Translation, Appropriation, and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s The Ancestress.- 6. ‘The Sunrise on the Peasant Shines’: Romantic Cultural Constructions of a Nordic Sonderweg in NineteenthCentury Painting.- 7. The Transmission of Material Experience in NineteenthCentury Danish Landscape Painting.- 8. Mary Howitt’s Translation of Hans Christian Andersen’s Fairy Tales.- 9. ‘Minds Play into One Another’: The Early Reception of Harriet Martineau in Sweden.- 10. ‘A poet, however, whom we fear that few Swedes know about’: Hellen Lindgren’s 1892 Essay on Percy Bysshe Shelley.

“The articles are engaging and convincing individually … . it certainly achieves its aim of highlighting the importance of transnational cultural dissemination for understanding this complex cultural field.” (Ellen Rees, Scandinavian Studies, Vol. 95 (4), 2023)