Nineteenth-Century Nationalisms and Emotions in the Baltic Sea Region

Anna Bohlin, Ph.D. (2008), Umeå University, is Associate Professor of Nordic Literature at the University of Bergen. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume Tracing the Jerusalem Code III. The Promised Land: Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca.1750–ca.1920) (de Gruyter 2021).Tiina Kinnunen, Ph.D. (2000), University of Tampere, is Professor of Finnish and Northern European History at the University of Oulu. Her recent publications include “Feminist Biography in Finland and Sweden around 1900: Creation of Bonds of Gratitude and Admiration,” in Erinnern, vergessen, umdeuten?(Campus, 2019).Heidi Grönstrand, Ph.D. (2005), University of Turku, is Associate Professor at the Department of Slavic and Baltic languages, Finnish, Dutch and German at Stockholm University. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume The Aesthetics and Politics of Linguistic Borders: Multilingualism in Northern European Literature (Routledge, 2020).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Production of LossAnna Bohlin, Heidi Grönstrand and Tiina KinnunenThe Production of Loss Organising Thought1 Loss, Emotion, and Transformation of a National Idea: Poland 1795–1815Maciej Janowski2 Visions of the Nation and Feelings of Loss in the Works of Steen Steensen BlicherJens Eike Schnall3 Neglect, Grief, Revenge: Finland in Swedish Nineteenth-Century LiteratureAnna Bohlin4 How a Culture Was Almost Lost: The Sámi in Nineteenth-Century Conceptualizations of Finnish NationhoodJens GrandellLandscapes and Bodies Activating the Production of Loss5 Entrenchments and Escape Routes: Expressing a Sense of Loss in Danish Art 1848–1864Peter Nørgaard Larsen6 Outreach, Invasion, Displacement: Denmark’s Disputed Southern Borderland as Negotiated through Strategic and Affective Aspects of Space in Novels by Andersen and BangBjarne Thorup Thomsen7 Affective Bodies on the Move: Space, Emotions and Loss in Fredrika Runeberg’s Historical Novel Lady Catharina Boije and her Daughters (1858)Kristina Malmio8 Carl Larsson’s Spadarfvet, My Little Farmstead (1906): Paradise Regained or Lament for a Disappearing Agrarian Society?Martin Olin9 Sweden and Algeria in the Travel Writing of Anna Maria Roos, 1905–1909Jenny BergenmarPersonal Loss and Lived Nationalism10 “Thus Shall Our Joy Be Solemn, and Our Pain Fruitful”: Nation, Loss and the Power of Emotions in Amalie von Helvig’s WritingsJules Kielmann11 The Sense of Loss in the Context of Language Disputes in Finland: Reflections on E.F. Jahnsson’s AuthorshipHeidi Grönstrand12 Nationalism, Emotions and Loss in Lilli Suburg’s Short Story “Liina” (1877)Eve Annuk13 Alexandra Gripenberg and Lost Faith in National BelongingTiina KinnunenIndex