In the mid-19th century, intrepid explorers began to shine a light on the darkness of the deep. The mystique of what lay beneath the surface of the va…

When the first European explorers ventured into the unknown Pacific Ocean, their minds were filled with tales of remote, paradisiacal islands. Hopeful…

Cultural differences are often the trigger for conflict – whether politically motivated or arising from dissonant understandings of national culture.…

Nordic children’s books and media have changed greatly over the past 250 years. Form and content, materiality, concepts of childhood, and media techno…

Son of Spinoza sheds light on the interconnectedness between Jewishness and cosmopolitanism in the oeuvre of the Danish-Jewish intellectual Georg Bran…

Peter Brandes is one of the most significant Danish visual artists alive today. He is represented in the collections of leading museums worldwide, inc…

Exploring Text, Media, and Memory investigates the link between memory and media by asking a series of questions pertinent to our time: How do individ…

The articles in this number of Romantik include new research on reverie and dream as the locus of metaphor in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unboun…

Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms includes new research articles on Byron's The Giaour, on spatial memory in Wordsworth and Rousseau, on…

Africa: a forgotten continent that evades all attempts at control and transcends reason. Or does it? This book describes Europe's image of Africa…

This third issue of Romantik: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms contains a theme section: 'Renegotiations of romanticism'. This special theme brin…

Books are written to entertain and to inform, and during the Enlightenment, accounts of other worlds became popular as trade routes, scientific and le…