Professor Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen (UCL School of European Languages, Culture & Society) discusses the history of Nordic artists Ibsen and Grieg, and how they were influenced by a larger wave of nationalism borne of German romanticism and Brothers Grimm’s folk tales.
Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘The Invention of…Scandanavia: The Narcissism of Small Differences’ (from 13 mins 15 secs)
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