Cover not available
Part of
Exploring NORDIC COOL in Literary History
Edited by Gunilla Hermansson and Jens Lohfert Jørgensen
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 15] 2020
► pp. 223–238

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
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
Published online: 1 December 2020
DOI logo
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.15.14arp
References (32)
Bibliography
Anderson, Benedict R. O’G. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London: Verso, 1983.Google Scholar
[Anonymous]. “Laing’s Translation of the Heimskringla, or, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway.” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 11 (April and May 1844): 281–94, 369–81.Google Scholar
[Anonymous]. “New Novels: New Sketch [sic] of Every-day Life; A Diary. –Strife and Peace; A Tale.” Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine 11 (March 1844): 141–50.Google Scholar
Arping, Åsa. “‘The Miss Austen of Sweden’: Fredrika Bremer’s Transatlantic Triumph in the Age of Reprint.” In Swedish Women’s Writing on Export: Tracing Transnational Reception in the Ninetenth Century, edited by Yvonne Leffler et al., 97–153. Gothenburg: LIR. Skrifter, 2019.Google Scholar
Arping, Åsa and Yvonne Leffler. “The Wonderful Adventures of Swedish Everyday-Life: Female Domestic Novels on Export in the Nineteenth Century.” In The Dynamics and Contexts of Cultural Transfer: An Anthology, edited by Margaretha Fahlgren and Anna Williams, 53–77. Uppsala: Skrifter utgivna av Avdelningen för Litteratursociologi, Uppsala universitet 67, 2017.Google Scholar
Asmundsson, Doris A. Fredrika Bremer in England. University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, 1976, Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1964.Google Scholar
Beecroft, Alexander. An Ecology of World Literature: From Antiquity to the Present Day. New York: Verso, 2015.Google Scholar
Benson, Adolph B. “The Beginning of American Interest in Scandinavian Literature.” Scandinavian Studies and Notes 8, no. 5 (February, 1925): 133–41.Google Scholar
“A List of the English Translations of the Frithiofs Saga .” Germanic Review 1 (1926): 142–67.Google Scholar
“The Essays on Fredrika Bremer in the North American Review.” PMLA 41, no. 3 (Sept. 1926): 747–55. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Bremer, Fredrika. The Homes of the New World: Impressions of America. Vols. 1–2. Translated by Mary Howitt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1853.Google Scholar
. “Litet om mitt skrifveri” (MS). Uppst. 9:3:5. GUB (Gothenburg University Library)
. New Sketches of Every-day Life: A Diary. Together with Strife and Peace. Translated by Mary Howitt. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1844.Google Scholar
Burman, Carina. Bremer: En biografi. Stockholm: Bonniers, 2001.Google Scholar
Byrne, Angela. Geographies of the Romantic North: Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Davidson, Peter. The Idea of North. London: Reaktion Books, 2005.Google Scholar
Davies, Mark. A Perambulating Paradox: British Travel Literature and the Image of Sweden c. 1770–1865. Ph.D. diss., University of Lund, 2000.Google Scholar
Falnes, Oscar J. “New England Interest in Scandinavian Culture and the Norsemen.” The New England Quarterly X, no. 2 (June 1937): 211–42. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Irving, Washington. “Memoir of Thomas Campbell.” In Thomas Campbell. The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell, v–xv. Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1845.Google Scholar
Kassis, Dimitrios. American Travellers in Scandinavia. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.Google Scholar
Klitgaard Povlsen, Karen. “Eighteenth Century Stereotypes of the North: An Introduction.” In Northbound: Travels, Encounters, and Constructions 1700–1830, edited by Karen Klitgaard Povlsen, 11–25. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2007.Google Scholar
Laing, Samuel. A Tour in Sweden in 1838; Comprising Observations on the Moral, Political, and Economical State of the Swedish Nation. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1839.Google Scholar
[Laing, Samuel], “Frederika Bremer’s Novels.” North British Review 1, no. 1 (May–August 1844): 168–83.Google Scholar
Lehuu, Isabelle. Carnival on the Page: Popular Print Media in Antebellum America. Chapel Hill, N.C., and London: University of North Carolina Press, 2000.Google Scholar
L. J. H. “Novels of Fredrika Bremer.” The Christian Examiner and General Review 34 (July 1843): 381–94.Google Scholar
[Lowell, James Russell]. “New Translations of the Writings of Miss Bremer.” North American Review 58, no. 123 (April 1844): 480–508.Google Scholar
McGill, Meredith L. American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834–1853. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Melville, Herman. “Hawthorne and His Mosses.” In Moby-Dick, or, the Whale, 535–551. New York: Norton, 1967 [1850].Google Scholar
Ruddock, Alwyn A. “Columbus and Iceland: New Light on an Old Problem.” The Geographical Journal 136, no. 2 (June 1970): 177–89. DOI logoGoogle Scholar
Tebbel, John. Between Covers: The Rise and Transformation of American Book Publishing. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.Google Scholar
Wawn, Andrew. The Vikings and the Victorians: Inventing the Old North in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000.Google Scholar
Wollstonecraft, Mary. Letters Written During a Short Residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. London: J. Johnson, 1796.Google Scholar