Romantic Norths

Chapter 1 Introduction: ‘the less known, but equally romantic, regions of the north’

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)

Chapter 3 British Travellers Visiting Finland: from ‘Enlightened’ Expectations to ‘Romantic’ Fulfilment

Chapter 4 Constructing and Classifying ‘the North’: Linnaeus and Lapland

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

Chapter 7 ‘The North’ and ‘the East’: The Odin Migration Theory

Chapter 8 ‘These children of nature’: Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Danish Imaginings of Greenland

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)

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

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