Subject Area: Denmark & Danish

Livserindringer / Memories of My Life: A Woman’s Life in Nineteenth-Century Denmark

Hertz, Cecilie
2009 0-7734-4866-7 312 pages
The first full English translation, annotated by excerpts from other writings, and illustrated, of Memories of My Life. This memoir illuminates Danish provincial life, childhood and education, and also relevant to the study of nineteenth-century women’s history and literature.

The Life of Words by Kristoffer Nyrop (A Distinguished Danish Linguist Displays 10 Ways We Use Words to Explain Things)

Finkin, Jordan D.
2016 1-4955-0519-7 288 pages
Dr. Finkin’s masterful translation of this highly regarded yet underutilized work by Kristoffer Nyrop is an exceptional English presentation of the changing life of words from a renowned Danish linguist

Biography of 19th Century Danish Literary Impressionist Herman Bang (1857-1912)

Greene-Gantzberg, Vivian
1997 0-7734-8621-6 230 pages
This is the first study in English of the life and work of Herman Bang, Danish novelist and avant-courrier of European impressionism. Leading German authors and critics, Thomas Mann, Hermann Hesse, and Robert Musil among them, attest to Bang's contribution to European prose fiction and their personal indebtedness to his narrative style. This study introduces Bang's literary style and places him in the social context of European cultural history. The first part identifies major motifs in his political, literary, and sexual legacies. It interweaves original research based on Bang's heretofore unpublished correspondence with authors, publishers, agents, and translators, and includes critical comments about Bang's reception from newspapers and journals which circulated during his lifetime. By special permission from Edition Spangenberg, an hitherto unpublished excerpt of Klaus Mann's account of Herman Bang's visit to America appears in the original English.

Denmark, Hamlet and Shakespeare Vol. 1: A Study of Englishmen's Knowledge of Denmark Towards the End of the 16th Century, with Special Reference to Hamlet

Dollerup, Cay
1975 0-7734-0515-1 181 pages
A rare work on the integration of history, culture and political literature in the works of Shakespeare.

Denmark, Hamlet and Shakespeare. Vol. 2. A Study of Englishmen's Knowledge of Denmark Towards the End of the 16th Century, with Special Reference to Hamlet

Dollerup, Cay
1975 0-7734-0660-3 164 pages
Groundbreaking work on the integration of history, culture and political literature in the works of Shakespeare.

Dithmarschen, a Medieval Peasant Republic

Urban, William Lawrence
1991 0-7734-9783-8 180 pages
Examines the existence of the Dithmarschen Republic (1227-1559), ruled by commoners who developed their own institutions, had their own written constitution, and successfully defended their political independence against the forces of Holstein, the combined powers of Schleswig and Holstein, and the united kingdom of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Argues that the unique characteristics of Dithmarschen are not unique. Concludes that the small size of the Republic finally prevented its survival due to a reluctance to dilute its sovereignty by associating more closely with neighboring states.

The Danish Version of Mandeville’s Travels in Sixteenth-Century Epitome

Bradley, S.A.J.
1998 0-7734-8261-X 140 pages
This edition provides a critical English translation of the 16th-century Danish work that is the epitome or summary of part of the original "Mandeville's Travels".