This book explores various forms of cultural influence and exchange between Britain and the Nordic countries in the late eighteenth century and romantic period.

“Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream.” Margaret Atwood, �

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Freshly presents world history through its oceans and seas in uniquely wide-ranging, original chapters by leading experts in their fields.

This book traces this German idea of freedom from the late Enlightenment through the early twentieth century. McGrath shows how German intellectual and artists