Journal for the Study of romanticisms

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This third issue of Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms contains a theme section: ‘Renegotiations of romanticism’. This special theme brings together various examinations of the ways in which romanti-cism continues to play an important role in a post-romantic age. The reason for invit-ing contributions examininvit-ing the afterlife of romanticism in national and international settings is to explore how we may understand it as not just a past event or artistic move-ment, but as an ongoing process of cultural development. The contributions provide new insights into post-romantic art – both from the perspective of the artists and in terms of how their works were received. In addition to the articles featured in the theme section, this issue also contains contributions that shed new light on both canonical and lesser-known works from the romantic period – including analyses of poetry, novels, and travelogues. As in previous issues, Romantik is richly illustrated.

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Editors

Robert W. Rix (University of Copenhagen), Lis Møller (Aarhus University), Karina Lykke Grand (Aarhus University), Anna Lena Sandberg (University of Copenhagen), Cian Duffy (University of Copenhagen and St. Mary’s University College, Twickenham, London) Nordic Co-Editor (third issue)

Elisabeth Oxfeldt (University of Oslo) Editorial Board

Gunilla Hermansson (University of Gothenburg), Tomas Björk (Stockholm University), Leena Eilittä (University of Helsinki), Knut Ljøgodt (Northern Norway Art Museum) Advisory Board

Charles Armstrong (University of Bergen), Paula Henrikson (Uppsala University), Jacob Bøggild (Aarhus University), David Fairer (University of Leeds), Karin Hoff (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), David Jackson (University of Leeds), Stephan Michael Schröder (University of Cologne), Christoph Bode (Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität München), Lauri Suurpää (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki) Main editorial contact

Robert W. Rix [[email protected]] Editorial Secretary

Kasper Rueskov Guldberg (Aalborg University) Visit www.romantikstudier.dk or www.unipress.dk

Romantik is supported by NOS-HS – Joint Committee for Nordic Research Councils for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and by AU Ideas.

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NEW ROMANTICISMS IN WILHELMINE GERMANY

Karin Sanders

THE ROMANTIC FAIRY TALE AND SURREALISM

Marvelous Non-Sense and Dark Apprehensions Sigrun Åsebø

TRAVELLING HUT S AND INVADING SPACESHIPS

Marianne Heske, Tiril Schrøder, and Norwegian Romantic Landscapes

INGER CHRIS TENSEN / NOVALIS / PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE

Silje Svare

SECRET OR SECRETLESSNESS?

On Poetological Dialogue and Affinities in Inger Christensen, Peter Waterhouse – and Novalis Anne Gry Haugland

NATIVE AND DEEP-ROOTED

Positions in Inger Christensen’s Philosophy of Nature Klaus Müller-Wille

DISPERSION, COUNTERS YMBOL S, AND MUTUAL REPRESENTATION

Inger Christensen’s det and Novalis’s Die Lehrlinge zu Sais

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GENDER , MEMORY, AND INTERCULTURALIT Y IN C AROLINE DE L A MOTTE FOUQUÉ’S HIS TORIC AL NOVEL DIE VERTRIEBENEN 

Jennifer Wawrzinek

HOSPITALIT Y AND THE NATION IN MARY WOLL S TONECRAFT ’S

A SHORT RESIDENCE IN SWEDEN, NORWAY, AND DENMARK

Per-Arne Bodin

THE ROMANTIC, THE GOTHIC, AND THE VISUAL

Three Narratives about Amalia von Krüdener and the Russian Poet Fedor Tiutchev

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

The special theme of this volume of Romantik is ‘Renegotiations of romanticism’. Hence, the theme section addresses the ways in which romanticism continues to be renegotiated in post-romantic periods. This process of renegotiations pertains to production and reception. Artists renegotiate texts of the romantic era, just as those same texts are frequently renegotiated by critics, by historiographers, and by national ideologies.

The articles in this issue show that the influence of romantic works is both widespread and deep. As a set of ideas or a mode of thinking, romanticism has proved itself to be both enduring and protean. This issue provides a number of innovative analyses of how romanticism has been and continues to be renegoti-ated. The motive for inviting contributions examining the afterlife of romanti-cisms is to explore how we may understand romanticism as not just a past event, but as an ongoing process of cultural development. We may usefully situate ro-manticism both in its historical context and in ours. It is our hope that this issue will facilitate a dialogue between what romanticism was and how it continues to unfold in various cultural manifestations – as romantic legacies in its immediate aftermath, as contemporary debates, and as a vector of the future.

Several articles in the theme section discuss the question from the perspective of the artist: How is the artist and his/her work influenced by romanticism and/ or particular romantic scholars? How does the artist engage with romanticism in order to use, question and/or interfere with it?

Other articles discuss the question from the perspective of reception: How has the idea of what we now call ‘romanticism’ been constructed over time? How were ‘new’ romanticisms constructed? And finally, which works have been cano-nised and memorialised, and for what (national) purposes?

The articles that belong in the cluster of ‘Renegotiations of romanticism’ are Mitchell B. Frank’s analysis of ‘New Romanticisms in Wilhelmine Germany’, Ka-rin Sanders’s examination of ‘The Romantic Fairy Tale and Surrealism: Marvel-ous Non-Sense and Dark Apprehensions’, and Sigrun Åsebø’s article ‘Travelling Huts and Invading Spaceships: Marianne Heske, Tiril Schrøder, and Norwegian Romantic Landscapes’. The issue also features a tripartite article, ‘Inger Chris-tensen / Novalis / Philosophy of Nature’, by Anne Gry Haugland, Klaus Müller-Wille, and Silje Svare on the romantic legacies found in the work of the Danish

author Inger Christensen (1935–2008), an international name who was considered

the most eminent experimentalist of her generation and was often mentioned as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. The individual titles of the linked articles on Inger Christensen are ‘Secret or Secretlessness?: On Poetological Dia-logue and Affinities in Inger Christensen, Peter Waterhouse – and Novalis’ (Sva-re), ‘Native and Deep-Rooted: Positions in Inger Christensen’s Philosophy of Na-ture’ (Haugland), and ‘Dispersion, Countersymbols, and Mutual Representation: Inger Christensen’s det and Novalis’ Die Lehrlinge zu Sais’ (Müller-Wille).

In addition to the articles featured in the theme section, this issue contains articles that analyse and shed new light on romantic works, including poetry, novels, and travelogues. These include Elisa Müller-Adams’s ‘Gender, Memory, and Interculturality in Caroline de la Motte Fouqué’s Historical Novel Die Ver-triebenen’, Jennifer Wawrzinek’s ‘Hospitality and the Nation in Mary Wollstone-craft’s A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark’, and Per-Arne Bodin’s ‘The Romantic, the Gothic, and the Visual: Three Narratives about Amalia von Krüdener and the Russian Poet Fedor Tiutchev’.

This year, we would again like to thank NOP-HS for supporting the journal and to AU-Ideas for making it possible to print the large number of colour il-lustrations.

Welcome to Romantik! The editors

FOREWORD