Romantic Norths

Cian Duffy is Professor of English Literature at Lund University, Sweden.  He has published articles, books and editions dealing with various aspects of the intellectual life and cultural history of late eighteenth-century and Romantic-period Britain.

1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. '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) - Christoph Bode.- Chapter 3. From 'enlightened' expectations to 'romantic' fulfilment: British travellers visiting Finland - Leena Eilittä.- Chapter 4. Constructing and classifying 'the North': Linnaeus in Lapland - Annika Lindskog.- Chapter 5. Inventing Jutland for the 'Golden Age': Danish artists guided by Sir Walter Scott - Gertrud Oelsner.- Chapter 6. 'The dance all under the greenwood tree': British and Danish romantic-period adaptations of two Danish 'elf ballads' - Lis Møller.- Chapter 7. 'The North' and 'the East': the Odin migration theory in the eighteenth century and romantic periods - Robert Rix.- Chapter 8. 'These children of nature': cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Danish imaginings of Greenland - LoneKølle Martinsen.- Chapter 9. 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) - Elettra Carbone.- Chapter 10.  A 'remote and cheerless possession': early nineteenth-century British imaginings of Newfoundland - Pam Perkins.- Chapter 11. Coda: Comparing the literature of 'the North': William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen - Cian Duffy.- Bibliography.-