This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the
Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period. Broadly new-historicist in
approach but drawing also on influential descriptions of genre discipline mediation
cultural exchange and comparative methodologies these essays not only constitute a
substantial and innovative contribution to scholarly understanding of the development of
romanticisms and romantic nationalisms in Britain and the Nordic countries but also describe a
pattern of cultural encounter which was predicated upon exchange and a sense of commonality
rather than upon the perception of difference or alterity which has so often been discerned by
critical descriptions of British romantic-period engagements with non-British cultures. The
volume ought to appeal to a broad and genuinely international academic audience with interests
in eighteenth-century and romantic-period culture in Britain and Scandinavia as well as to
undergraduates taking courses in eighteenth-century romantic and Scandinavian studies.
