Northern Arcadia : foreign travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815 / H. Arnold Barton.

Author
Barton, H. Arnold (Hildor Arnold), 1929-2016 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, ©1998.
Description
viii, 223 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 24 cm

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    • Northern Arcadia is a comparative study of the accounts of foreign visitors to the Nordic lands during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Travel literature about Scandinavia illuminates the shift in the European intellectual climate from the enlightened rationalism and utilitarianism of the earlier travelers in this period to the pre-Romantic sensibility of those who followed them. In a Europe torn by war and revolution, sensitive souls could find their new Arcadia in the North - at least until the Scandinavian kingdoms themselves became engulfed by the Napoleonic wars after 1805.
    • The first scholar to examine as a whole the travel literature dealing with Denmark, Schleswig-Holstein, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, and the Faero Islands, H. Arnold Barton discusses accounts left by both the celebrated and the obscure. Well-known travelers include Vittorio Alfieri, Francisco de Miranda, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Malthus, and Aaron Burr. Literary travelers of the day included, among others, Nathanael Wraxall, William Coxe, Charles Gottlob Kuttner, Edward Daniel Clarke, and John Carr.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-212) and index.
    Contents
    • Introduction: Travel and Travel Literature in the Eighteenth Century
    • 1. Travelers and Travel in the North, 1765-1815
    • 2. The Public Visage: Culture, State, and Polite Society
    • 3. Landscapes and the Material Base
    • 4. The Inhabitants of the North
    • 5. Ultima Thule
    • 6. The Rise and Fall of a New Arcadia
    • Conclusion: "The Eye of the Beholder."
    ISBN
    • 080932203X ((alk. paper))
    • 9780809322039 ((alk. paper))
    LCCN
    98015892
    OCLC
    38566201
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