Romantic Norths : Anglo-Nordic exchanges 1700-1850 /: Anglo-Nordic exchanges 1700-1850. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cian Duffy, editor.
• Editors: Duffy, Cian
• Contents: 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809/.9145; Romanticism; European literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Scandinavian literature -- English influences; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary; European literature; International relations; Romanticism; Great Britain -- Relations -- Scandinavia; Scandinavia -- Relations -- Great Britain; Great Britain; Scandinavia; Electronic books; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319512464; 3319512463
• Related ISBNs: 9783319512457
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 11, 2017).
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