Carl-Ludwig Conning

Carl-Ludwig Conning is a Researcher at the Department of English, Stockholm University, specializing in British and American Romantic literature. His work interrogates the concept of 'the imperfect' through aesthetic and philosophical frameworks, linking Romanticism to its eighteenth-century predecessors and New England transcendentalism.

His research interests span British Romantic Literature, Aesthetics, and Philosophical Discourse, with a focus on the sublime, gothic, and meteorological representation in poetry. Recent publications analyze cross-cultural translations of Shelley’s work, particularly in Swedish contexts, and the integration of materialist philosophy into Romantic poetic form.

Conning’s 2023 article on Gustaf Fröding’s translation struggles with Shelley’s 'Hymn to Intellectual Beauty' highlights the unique meteorological precision in Shelley’s poetry, while his 2022 chapter documents Swedish Romantic transitions via Hellen Lindgren’s essay. His contact email is carl-ludwig.conning@english.su.se.