The Vikings and the Victorians
Subtitle: inventing the old north in nineteenth-century Britain
By: Andrew Wawn.
Publisher: D.S. Brewer; Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 434
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.; Vikings in literature.; Medievalism -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.; Old Norse literature -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.; English literature -- Scandinavian influences.; Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century.; Sagas -- Appreciation -- Great Britain.; Vikings -- Historiography.; Vikings in art.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- 19th century.; Europe, Northern -- In literature.
Description: "This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. Walter Scott, William Morris, Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling appear alongside amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isle of Wight; the material examined, published and unpublished, includes novels, poems, lectures, periodicals, saga-stead travelogues, philology, art and music.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 nineteenth-century Britain."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 373-[418]) and index.