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Book SynopsisThe articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian History and the role it played in the construction of national memory and heritage; a discussion of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg’s and John Martin’s iconographies of the sublime in the intersection between art and popular visual spectacle; archival discoveries related to the publication of medieval romance in early nineteenth-century Britain; and a reassessment of The Prelude as a formation narrative, arguing that William Wordsworth displays a conflicted attitude to the growth and progress usually found in the Bildungsroman. The journal also contains reviews of new books on the romantic period published in the Nordic countries.
Table of ContentsCREATING A PATRIOTIC HISTORY: HISTORICAL SOURCE-EDITING AS NATIONAL MONUMENT WORDSWORTH’S PRELUDE, THE ETERNAL CHILD, AND THE DIALECTICS OF BILDUNG BETWEEN ART ACADEMY AND ENTERTAINMENT CULTURE: PHILIPPE JACQUES DE LOUTHERBOURG, JOHN MARTIN, AND THE SUBLIME `DIGNIFIED SENSIBILITY & FRIENDLY EXERTION’: JOSEPH RITSON AND GEORGE ELLIS’S METRICAL ROMANCE(Ë)S DREAM SHAPES AS QUEST OR QUESTION IN SHELLEY’S PROMETHEUS UNBOUND BOOK REVIEWS H. C. ANDERSEN OG DET UhYGGELIGE HANS GUDE – EN KUNSTNERREISE TONDIKTAREN CARL JONAS LOVE ALMQVIST EN MUSIKALISK BIOGRAFI
