The nineteenth century witnessed an upsurge of interest in the region across Europe and North America. Depictions of regions circulated across borders or interacted with global cultural repertoires of the local. These transnational aspects are central to this volume. The nineteenth century witnessed an upsurge of interest in the region across Europe and North America, in media ranging from literary fiction to the illustrated periodical and from visual arts to architecture. This rise of regionalism has often been linked to nationalism and nation building. However, depictions of the region circulated across borders or interacted with transnational cultural repertoires of the local. These often overlooked transnational aspects are the focus of this volume which considers cultural representations of the region during the long nineteenth century, in its variety of dimensions, across all expressive media. [This] collection consistently draws out the border-crossing dynamics through which the very perception of ‘regions’ is generated and maintained. Contributions by established and emerging scholars all rise to the challenge of contextualizing representations of specific regions in transnational networks of exchange. [...] The volume is resolutely interdisciplinary, encompassing various literary genres as well as music, visual arts, and world fairs. It will ensure that the region is, in the best possible sense, ‘all over the place’. – Raphaël Ingelbien, Professor of English Literature at KU Leuven The nineteenth century witnessed an upsurge of interest in the region across Europe and North America, in media ranging from literary fiction to the illustrated periodical and from visual arts to architecture. This rise of regionalism has often been linked to nationalism and nation building. However, depictions of the region circulated across borders or interacted with transnational cultural repertoires of the local. These often overlooked transnational aspects are the focus of this volume which considers cultural representations of the region during the long nineteenth century, in its variety of dimensions, across all expressive media. [This] collection consistently draws out the border-crossing dynamics through which the very perception of ‘regions’ is generated and maintained. Contributions by established and emerging scholars all rise to the challenge of contextualizing representations of specific regions in transnational networks of exchange. [...] The volume is resolutely interdisciplinary, encompassing various literary genres as well as music, visual arts, and world fairs. It will ensure that the region is, in the best possible sense, ‘all over the place’. – Raphaël Ingelbien, Professor of English Literature at KU Leuven Table of Contents Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: Transnational Representations of the Region, 1840-1940 Sophie van Os, Anneloek Scholten and Christopher Cusack section I Transnational Reception 1 Travelling Regionalism and the Art of Comparison Stephanie Palmer 2 Mary E. Wilkins Freeman’s Regional Stories in France and Switzerland: Translators, Periodical Translation, and the Transnational Literary Marketplace Giulia Bruna 3 Children of Nature in an Untouched Wilderness:Jens Andreas Friis’s Lajla (1881) and the European Imagination of the Sámi and the Cap of the North Tim van Gerven section II Travelling Regions 4 The Global Vernacularisation of Regional Identities: Cultural Isomorphism at World Fairs, 1851-1939 Eric Storm 5 Escaping Modernity, Accessing the Past: The Transnational Construction of the Remote in Late-Nineteenth-Century Norway Christian Drury 6 Province, Paris, World: Forging Spatial Relationships through Theatrical Performance in Nineteenth-Century French Spa Towns Sophie Horrocks David section III Mapping Regional Identities 7 ‘Vrais Jêrriais nès, et Normands d’race’: Press Representations of Transnational Norman Identity in Jersey and France Peter George 8 Feminine Representations of Alsace: The Alsacienne at the Franco-German Border Aurélie Marks Toitot 9 Sounding the South: Mapping Musical and Intermedial Imaginaries of Regional Spaces Frank Mehring coda From the Local to the Global 10 From the ‘Back of Beyond’ to the Middle of Forever: The Urgency of Transnational Regionalist Perspectives in Anthropocene Time June Howard