…part of the wider Romantic interest in the wild and sublime that you see in Gothic literature, but also in travel writing from Norway (+ the family connection).

Good question - I think most of the work on Frankenstein has looked at the polar aspects. I'm not sure if Shelley went to Scandinavia but Mary Wollstonecraft wrote one of the first major travelogues from the region. I don't know if there is a direct influence on Frankenstein, but it's certainly...

Nice to see this in actual print as well!

My dad had to abandon his attempt to read Dark Matter on his own in a campervan in Northern Norway...

Historians of Scandinavia might find this chapter by Tim van Gerven on the reception of J.A. Friis's Lajla and tourism in Sápmi particularly interesting: books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...

It's from this edited collection, "Transnational Representations of the Region, 1840-1940", which is full of really interesting work on transnational culture in the period: books.radbouduniversitypress.nl/index.php/ru...