Romantik 2023: Journal for the Study of Romanticisms

Title Page
Copyright
Table of Contents
Body
Introduction
Kasper Lægring (University of Aarhus): Danish Golden Age Painting in a Sentimental Light: Pictures of Childhood
	Introduction
	Sentimentality as a Concept
	Greuze and the Advent of Sentimentality in Painting
	Depictions of Children in the Early Golden Age
	Depictions of Children in the Late Golden Age
	Defining Sentimentality in Works of Art
	The Outsider Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann
	Conclusion and Discussion
Anna Bohlin (University of Bergen): Figures of Emancipation: Organicist Imagery between Romanticism and Darwinism
	Organicism, Bildung, bloom
	Clinging vines, weed, and seeds of the Divine
	Competing interpretations of flowers in The District Governor\'s Daughters
	Transition from plants to animals in Collett\'s essays
	Concluding remarks
Alda Björk Valdimarsdóttir (University of Iceland): “… the really accomplished young woman, which she wanted to be thought herself;” Jane Austen, the chick lit genre, self-help culture, and 18th-century conduct books
	Women\'s rabid appetite: Austen and chick lit as a genre
	“I never saw such a woman.” Austen\'s heroines, education, and feminine virtues
	“Like ˋcreative accounting\'”. Emma Woodhouse and Rebecca Bloomwood
	Conclusion
Sanna Schulte (University of Vienna): Oscillating to Decipher the World – On the Timeless Relevance of Early Romantic Irony
	The Romantic ˋPotenzirung\' of the Literary World
	On Romantic Aesthetics
	Being in the World and Standing Above the World at the Same Time
	Irony as a Principle of World Literature
	Deciphering the World
Jacob Ølgaard Nyboe (University of Iceland): Let the Horses Sing and the Astral Lava Flow. On Homosexuality as Transcending Force in Bjørn Rasmussen\'s Huden er det elastiske hylster der omgiver hele legemet and Henrik Bjelke\'s Saturn
	Breathing that special air – Bjørn and the quest for transcendence
	Enkidu and the erotic awakening
	Postcoitus – closing remarks and reflections
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