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British Romanticism and Continental Influences

Writing in an Age of Europhobia

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  • © 2004

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  1. Peter Mortensen

    1. Aarhus University, Denmark

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: ‘Sickly and Stupid German Tragedies’

    • Peter Mortensen
    Pages 1-18

  3. ‘We Know that the Enemy is Working among Us’: The Rhetoric of Romantic Europhobia

    • Peter Mortensen
    Pages 19-42

  4. ‘Dethroning German Sublimity’: Outrageous Stimulation in Romantic Ballad-Writing

    • Peter Mortensen
    Pages 43-94

  5. ‘Il Est Devenue Classique en Angleterre’: Some Versions of Romantic (Anti-)Pastoral

    • Peter Mortensen
    Pages 95-133

  6. ‘Partizans of the German Theatre’: The Poetics and Politics of Romantic Dramatic Translation

    • Peter Mortensen
    Pages 134-172

  7. ‘The Descent of Odin’: Romantic Writers among the Norsemen

    • Peter Mortensen
    Pages 173-207

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 208-230
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About this book

During the 1790s and 1800s, cultural critics became convinced that Britain was being 'inundated' by pernicious literary translations imported from the European Continent. British Romanticism and Continental Influences discusses Romantic writers' complex and ambivalent responses to this threatening literary invasion. Confronted with foreign texts that seemed both attractive and repulsive, Mortensen argues, Romantic writers such as Wordsworth and Coleridge publicly distanced themselves from European sensationalism, even as they assimilated and revised its conventions in their own writing.

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'This book will make an important contribution to the new wave of Romantic studies currently broadening the worldly contexts of Romanticism away from a narrowly conceived English nativism.' - Saree Makdisi, Professor of English, University of California

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  • Aarhus University, Denmark

    Peter Mortensen

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PETER MORTENSEN was educated in Denmark and the US, and is currently Lecturer of English at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, where he teaches modern British and American Literature.

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