Lis Møller is Professor of Comparative Literature at Aarhus University, Denmark. She has authored and co-authored monographs, book chapters and articles on various aspects of Romantic-era Scandinavian, British, and German literature and culture. Most recently, she has co-authored the first comprehensive monograph on medievalism in Danish romantic literature, Middelalderisme I dansk romantisk litteratur (2023) and written the chapter on ‘Literatures of the North’ in The Cambridge History of European Romantic Literature edited by Patrick Vince (2023).

This outstanding new book, the result of years of original research, is a perfect example of a very rare combination: top-notch scholarship combined with formidable accessibility. It does not merely reflect the state of the art, it defines the gold standard of recent research in the field.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Ballads across BordersPart I. Antiquarian Border Crossings1. Reframing the Ballad2. Defining the Ballad3. Historicising the BalladPart II. Poetic Border Crossings4. Bürger-mania5. Danish Ballads of Magic across Borders6. Ballads in(to) NovelsBibliographyIndex