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Representations of the North in Victorian travel literature

Title
Representations of the North in Victorian travel literature / by Dimitrios Kassis.
Author
Kassis, Dimitrios
Publication
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Details

Description
360 pages; 22 cm
Subjects
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents
The concept of northern utopia -- Nineteenth-century racial theories on the north -- Debates on gender in Scandinavia and Britain -- William Coxe: Travels into Poland, Russia, Sweden and Denmark -- Mary Wollstonecraft: Letters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark -- Samuel Laing: Tour in Sweden in 1838: comprising observations on the moral, political, and economical state or the Swedish nation -- Selina Bunbuty: a summer in northern Europe, including sketches in Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Aland Islands, Gothland -- Frederick Metcalfe: The oxonian in Thelemarken -- Emily Lowe: Unprotected females in Norway, or, The pleasantest way of travelling there, passing through Denmark and Sweden -- Sabine Baring-Gould: Iceland its scenes and sagas -- Elizabeth J. Oswald: By fell and fjord or scenes and studies in Iceland -- Horace Marryat: A residence in Jutland, the Danish isles, and Copenhagen -- Lady Wilde (Jane Francesca Elgee): Driftwood from Scandinavia -- Charels Boileau-Elliott: Letters from the north of Europe, or a journal of travels in Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Prussia and Saxony -- Ethel Brilliana (Alec) Tweedie: Through Finland in carts.
Call Number
JFD 15-1673
ISBN
  • 9781443870849
  • 1443870846
OCLC
905005516
Author
Kassis, Dimitrios, author.
Title
Representations of the North in Victorian travel literature / by Dimitrios Kassis.
Publisher
Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Chronological Term
1800 - 1899
Research Call Number
JFD 15-1673
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