Nordic Terrors : Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature
In late eighteenth - and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers ex...
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| Format: | Livre numérique |
| Sprog: | Anglais |
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London :
Anthem Press
2024.
Paris : Cyberlibris |
| Online adgang: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Nordic terrors, scandinavian superstition in british gothic literature, Robert W. Rix, 2025, London, Anthem press, 1 volume (102 pages), Anthem studies in gothic literature, 978-1-83999-045-8 |
| Summary: | In late eighteenth - and early nineteenth-century British literature, Scandinavia emerged as a setting for Gothic terror. This book explores the extensive use of Nordic superstition as it provided a vocabulary for Gothic texts, examining the cultural significance these references held for writers exploring Britain's northern heritage. In Gothic publications, Nordic superstition sometimes parallels the representations of Catholicism, allowing writers to gloat at its phantasms and delusions. Thus, runic spells, incantations, and necromantic communications (of which Norse tradition afforded many examples) could replace practices usually assigned to Catholic superstition. Yet Nordic lore did more than merely supplant hackneyed Gothic formulas; it presented readers with an alternative conception of 'Otherness'. Nordic texts chiefly based on the Edda and the supernatural Scandinavian ballad tradition were seen as pre-Christian beliefs of the Gothic (i.e., Germanic) peoples, including the Anglo-Saxons. The book traces the development of this Nordic Gothic, situating it within wider literary, historical, political, and cultural contexts |
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| ISBN: | 9781839990472 |
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