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Nordic traditions
The study of modern Finnish and Scandinavian manuscripts
In the continental Nordic countries, the relatedness of the Scandinavian languages
Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, and the status of Swedish as an official language of Finland have contributed
to the transnational interaction in textual scholarship and edition philology. Historically, especially the
Romantic, nation-oriented thought has influenced the way in which literary archives have been assembled and
organised. In the twentieth century, many extensive Scandinavian and Finnish editorial projects of canonised
nineteenth-century writers have had an important impact on the availability and usability of archival sources,
and have enabled academic training in the use of literary manuscripts. Thus, even the most recent trends in
the study of literary drafts are historically based on the infrastructures, practices and scholarly traditions
derived from Romanticism.
Article outline
- Introduction
- Manuscripts within the scope of scholarly editing
- New interests in writers’ archives and literary drafts
- Conclusion: The inheritors of Romantic thought
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Notes
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References
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