Nordic Light

by Bredsdorff, Thomas; Mai, Anne-Marie; Hansen, Soren Peter

• ISBN13: 9788776742706
• ISBN10: 8776742709
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-31
• Publisher: University Press of Southern Denmark

Summary

Nordic Light mainly comprises Scandinavian contributions to two conferences convened by The International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies (ISECS) at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 2003; and at the Research Center on European Enlightenment at the Martin Luther University of Halle, Germany, in 2005. The theme of the first conference was "Global Eighteenth Century," and that of the second conference was "Religion and Enlightenment." The Enlightenment was nothing if not an age of networking. People travelled in real or imaginary worlds in order to connect, deride, improve, and learn. This was the age when the notion of universality took shape. Ideas travelled because if rights and wrongs are universal, sound ideas must be accessible to all and unsound ones challenged by being exposed to foreign scrutiny. The various contributions show facets of Scandinavian research into the 18th century. The need to see Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish culture and literature in a larger context is a characteristic of recent research, as these essays demonstrate.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 7
Candide on a Northern Journey	p. 11
Spectators in Denmark	p. 23
About Flora Danica	p. 35
A Moravian Brother in Greenland	p. 49
The Potential of the 18th Century in Terms of Literary History	p. 65
Enlightened Darkness - Ludvig Holberg and Religion	p. 79
"To be deeply moved in one's inner being" - Examples of Memoirs Written by Moravian Women	p. 97
Anna Maria Lenngren - a Jocular Believer	p. 117
When Magnus Brynolph Malmstedt Read Kant. Enlightenment Ideas and Alternative Rhetoric within the Eighteenth century Swedish Moravian Movement	p. 141
Improvisation and Artistic Creativity. Ambrosius Stub, H. A. Brorson, and the Song Tradition of the 17th and 18th Centuries	p. 161
Two Pietism and an Enlightenment - Halle and Herrnhut Viewed from Copenhagen	p. 179
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