British Romanticism and Denmark

British Romanticism and Denmark shows how the articulation in British Romantic-period writing of the idea of a ’Northern’ cultural identity - shared by Britain and Denmark and rooted in the Classical Scandinavian past - played an important role in the emergence and development of Romanticism and Romantic nationalism in both countries. By addressing a wide range of Nordic as well as Anglophone scholarship, this study offers new perspectives on British, Danish and European Romanticisms, and on the relationship between them.

Cian Duffy is professor and chair of English literature at Lund University, Sweden. He has authored monographs, scholarly and collected editions, chapters, articles and internet media dealing with various aspects of the intellectual life and cultural history of Britain during the late eighteenth century and Romantic period. Recent publications include Romantic Norths: Anglo-Nordic Exchanges, 1770-1842 (ed.; Palgrave, 2017) and Percy Bysshe Shelley: Selected Poetry and Prose (ed. with Jack Donovan; Penguin 2017).