
Hans Christian Andersen
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Hans Christian Andersen was a storyteller for children of all ages, but he was more than that. He was a critical journalist with great enthusiasm for science, an existential thinker, an observant travel book writer, a passionate novelist, a deft paper cut-out artist, a neurotic hypochondriac, and a man with intense but frustrated sexual desires.
This startling and immensely readable, definitive biography by Danish scholar Jens Andersen is essential to a full understanding of the man whose writing has influenced the lives of readers young and old for centuries. Jens Andersen sheds brilliant new light on Hans Christian Andersen's writings and on the writer whose own life had many aspects of the fairytale. Like some of the memorable characters he created, Andersen grew up in miserable and impoverished circumstances. He later propagated myths about his life and family, but this new biography uncovers much about this man that has never been revealed before.
"[An] enthralling, ground-breaking new biography... Jens Andersen has a novelist's insights which enhance his meticulous biographical skills, making us appreciate (among much else) that ambiguity is as intrinsic to the life as to the art that came out of it." - The Independent
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- Intro
- Copyright
- Contents
- TRANSLATOR'S NOTE
- FOREWORD
- One: ARRIVAL (1819-1822)
- A Son of Nature
- The Courage to Have Talent
- Dance Pupil
- Entering the Golden Age
- Hans Christian Andersen's Debut
- A Heathen Sense of Nature
- The Gentle Power of Love
- Two: IN THE HOUSE OF EDUCATION (1822-1827)
- The Art of Instilling an Education
- From Heaven to Hell and Helsingør
- A Potpourri of Poetry
- Religious and Poetic Maturation
- The Dying Child
- Liberation
- Three: WILD LIKE A POET (1827-1832)
- Father Collin
- The Hebraic Müller
- Romantic Walking Tour to Amager
- Playwright and Academic
- The Shadow Picture, Riborg Voigt
- Andersen's Order of Nuns
- Dear Frøken Louise!
- Four: YOUR ONLY FAULT WAS LOVE (1832-1836)
- The Men of Romanticism
- Brothers in Joy and Pain
- Twin Souls
- Say "Du" to Me
- Edvard Collin's Book About Andersen
- Nameless Love
- I Want to Be Kissed Too
- Our Child Agnete
- The Androgynous One
- The Improvisatore
- Wedding in the Collin Family
- Five: IN FAIRY LAND (1835-1840)
- The First Fairy Tales
- The Cult of Childhood
- The Manifesto of the Fantastic
- Where Did the Fairy Tale Come From?
- Kierkegaard and Andersen
- Eternal Rivals
- Six: DISTANT SHORES (1840-1846)
- Critical Headwinds
- Dining with the Form Cutters Guild
- Success at the Royal Theater
- Fru Heiberg
- "The Show-Off"
- By Railroad Through Europe
- Lovers' Go-Between
- The Hereditary Grand Duke Carl Alexander
- Falling in Love with Jenny Lind
- Reunion with Weimar
- He Is Not a She
- Seven: THE WATER OF LIFE (1846-1850)
- The German Autobiography
- His Childhood Home
- The Swamp in Only a Fiddler
- Immoral Fyn
- Was He the Son of a King?
- Free Shoemaker and Free Thinker
- The Odd Father and Son
- God or Napoleon
- Anne Marie Andersdatter
- A Woman with Second Sight from Fyn
- His Mother's Imploring Letters and Her Death
- Sister Karen
- Swinging London 1847
- Distant Political Clouds
- Eight: THE PATH FROM NATURE TO GOD (1850-1860)
- The Modern Breakthrough During the Golden Age
- Lovely Dresden
- Wagner and Liszt
- Kaulbach and King Max
- Rebelling Against Ørsted
- Falling-Out with Charles Dickens
- Nine: AMONG BROTHERS (1860-1870)
- Traveling as a Means of Rejuvenation
- With Jonas Collin in Spain, 1862-1863
- Two Strange Birds
- The Swarm of Confidants
- The Trembling Eyeglasses of the Traveling Life
- A Visit to Portugal, 1866
- At a Brothel in Paris
- Ten: THE MAN IN THE MOON (1870-1875)
- Collages of Words and Pictures
- Many Picture Books
- Writing with Scissors
- Bella Italia
- Eroticism in Naples
- Innocence as Religion
- Childhood Faith
- A God Dwells Within Us
- The Author and Death
- Morphine
- The Last Journey
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
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