In many ways the Victorians invented the Viking: the term, in its modern incarnation, is first recorded just 30 years before the young Princess Victoria's coronation, yet within 50 years it featured in the titles of dozens of poems, plays, prize essays, published lectures and parlour songs. This text discusses the Victorian fascination with the Old North; in it, Walter Scott, William Morris, Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling appear alongside amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isle of Wight. The material examined includes novels, poems, lectures, periodicals, philology, art and music. Andrew Wawn draws this wide range of source material together to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the Viking age in 19th-century Britain.
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In many ways, the Victorians invented the Vikings: the term first appears just 30 years before Victoria's coronation. This text draws a wide range of source material together to give a comprehensive account of the construction and translation of the Viking age in 19th-century Britain.
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Part 1 Hazelling the ground: of stockfish and saga; Georgian case-studies; protectors of Northern Arts. Part 2 Creating the canon: dead kings of Norroway; Frithiof of Sognefjord; George Dasent and "Burnt Njal"; the Eddas. Part 3 Philology and mercury: the Errander of Cheapinghaven; William Morris and the Old Grey North. Part 4 Living the Old North: travels, trips and trots; telling Viking tales; the invisible college. Part 5 Coda: "Vikinglife" after Victoria.
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ISBN
9780859915755
Publisert
2016-07-06
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Vendor
D.S. Brewer
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1098 gr
Høyde
238 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
37 mm
Aldersnivå
05, 06, UU, UP, P
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Product language
Engelsk
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Antall sider
456

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