Romantik 5

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 Unbound"; an enquiry into the Royal Swedish Society for the Publication of Manuscripts Relating to Scandinavian History and the role it played in the construction of national memory and heritage; a discussion of Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg's and John Martin's iconographies of the sublime in the intersection between art and popular visual spectacle; archival discoveries related to the publication of medieval romance in early nineteenth-century Britain; and a reassessment of "The Prelude" as a formation narrative, arguing that William Wordsworth displays a conflicted attitude to the growth and progress usually found in the "Bildungsroman". The journal also contains reviews of new books on the romantic period published in the Nordic countries.