Engaging with research fields including studies of cultural transfer, reception, transtextuality and adaptation, Lis Møller charts the circulation of ideas and texts - popular ballads and literary works inspired by popular balladry - between three languages: English, German and Danish. By tracing such exchanges, she challenges the idea that the Romantic-era ballad revival represented an inward turn towards the roots of one's national culture. As an alternative to the national approach, Møller proposes to view the ballad revival as a search for Northern European cultural entanglements. This book therefore contributes to the new trend in Romantic studies, which, moving beyond the mono-national approach, focuses on European Romanticism and explores the interaction of individual Romanticisms across national borders.
| ISBN: | 9781399548083 |
| Publication date: | 31st October 2025 |
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| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Romanticism |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: poetry and poets |