Rebranding “the North”
Swedish novelist Fredrika Bremer’s sudden American success in the 1840s
Article outline
- Strange encounters
- The rediscovery of the North
- Rebranding the Swedes
- Appropriating the North
- A circulation of ideas
- A love-hate relationship
- A new way of telling the (hi)story of the US
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Notes
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