Author: Norway
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Gamle Norge. Old Norway; or, Our Holiday in Scandinavia. [By Isabella Frances Blundell.]
Author: Norway
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The Northern Utopia
Author: Peter Fjågesund
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004485015
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, the ancient ‘filial tie’ between Britain and Norway was rediscovered by a booming tourist industry which took thousands across the North Sea to see the wonders of the fjords, the fjelds, and the beauties of the North Cape. This illustrated volume, for the first time, collects together vivid – and predominantly first-hand – impressions of the country recorded by nearly two hundred British travellers and other commentators, including Thomas Malthus, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Tennyson, and William Gladstone. In a rich selection of travel writing, fiction, poetry, journalism, political speeches, and art, Norway emerges as a refreshingly natural utopia, happily free from her imperial neighbour’s increasing problems with the side-effects of industrialisation. This is a fascinating examination of the people, institutions, customs, language and environment of Norway seen through the eyes of the British. Using the tools of literary and historical scholarship, Fjågesund and Symes set these perceptions in their nineteenth-century context, throwing light on such issues as progress, art and aesthetics, democracy, religion, nationhood, race, class, and gender, all of which occupied Europe at the time. The Northern Utopia will be of particular interest to students of British and Scandinavian cultural history, literature and travel writing. It will also enthral all those who love Norway.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004485015
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, the ancient ‘filial tie’ between Britain and Norway was rediscovered by a booming tourist industry which took thousands across the North Sea to see the wonders of the fjords, the fjelds, and the beauties of the North Cape. This illustrated volume, for the first time, collects together vivid – and predominantly first-hand – impressions of the country recorded by nearly two hundred British travellers and other commentators, including Thomas Malthus, Charlotte Brontë, Lord Tennyson, and William Gladstone. In a rich selection of travel writing, fiction, poetry, journalism, political speeches, and art, Norway emerges as a refreshingly natural utopia, happily free from her imperial neighbour’s increasing problems with the side-effects of industrialisation. This is a fascinating examination of the people, institutions, customs, language and environment of Norway seen through the eyes of the British. Using the tools of literary and historical scholarship, Fjågesund and Symes set these perceptions in their nineteenth-century context, throwing light on such issues as progress, art and aesthetics, democracy, religion, nationhood, race, class, and gender, all of which occupied Europe at the time. The Northern Utopia will be of particular interest to students of British and Scandinavian cultural history, literature and travel writing. It will also enthral all those who love Norway.
Personal Writings by Women to 1900
Author: Gwenn Davis
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway
Author: Kathryn Walchester
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ presents an account of the development of tourism in nineteenth-century Norway and considers the ways in which women travellers depicted their travels to the region. Tracing the motivations of various groups of women travellers, such as sportswomen, tourists and aristocrats, this book argues that in their writing, Norway forms a counterpoint to Victorian Britain: a place of freedom and possibility.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1783083670
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
‘Gamle Norge and Nineteenth-Century British Women Travellers in Norway’ presents an account of the development of tourism in nineteenth-century Norway and considers the ways in which women travellers depicted their travels to the region. Tracing the motivations of various groups of women travellers, such as sportswomen, tourists and aristocrats, this book argues that in their writing, Norway forms a counterpoint to Victorian Britain: a place of freedom and possibility.
Nineteenth Century Short-title Catalogue: phase 1. 1816-1870
Author:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Catalogue of Rare Books
Author: Ellis (Firm)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1098
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed books
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Gamle Norge
Author:
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Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Category : Norway
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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That Winter
Author: Pamela Gillilan
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her first collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Pamela Gillilan was born in London in 1918, married in 1948 and moved to Cornwall in 1951. When she sat down to write her poem Come Away after the death of her husband David, she had written no poems for a quarter of a century. Then came a sequence of incredibly moving elegies. Other poems followed, and two years after starting to write again, she won the Cheltenham Festival poetry competition. Her first collection That Winter (Bloodaxe, 1986) was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.