Romantic Norths

1. Introduction: ‘the less known, but equally romantic, regions of the north’
Cian Duffy

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

3. British Travellers Visiting Finland: from ‘Enlightened’ Expectations to ‘Romantic’ Fulfilment
Leena Eilittä

4. Constructing and Classifying ‘the North’: Linnaeus and Lapland
Annika Lindskog

5. Inventing Jutland for the ‘Golden Age’: Danish Artists Guided by Sir Walter Scott
Gertrud Oelsner

6. ‘They dance all under the greenwood tree’: British and Danish Romantic-Period Adaptations of Two Danish ‘Elf Ballads’
Lis Møller

7. ‘The North’ and ‘the East’: The Odin Migration Theory
Robert Rix

8. ‘These children of nature’: Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Danish Imaginings of Greenland
Lone Kølle Martinsen

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

10. A ‘remote and cheerless possession’: Early Nineteenth-Century British Imaginings of Newfoundland
Pam Perkins

11. Coda: Comparing the Literature of ‘the North’ – William Wordsworth and Jens Baggesen
Cian Duffy

Keywords: Literature, Eighteenth-Century Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature