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Title:Northbound : Travel, Encounters & Constructions, 1700-1830
Author:Karen Klitgaard Povlsen (ed)
ISBN:8779342647 : 9788779342644
Illustrations:colour photos
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:411
Weight: 1.094 Kg.
Published:Aarhus University Press - December 2007
List Price: 22.75 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:European studies: European history (not UK & Eire)


A group of 16 scholars from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, Greenland, Finland, Germany and USA explore the changes that had taken place in the conception of the North during the 18th century, changes that were a symptom of an ambivalent understanding of the North vis-à-vis the South. From antiquity to Montesquieu, the North could be considered a Dystopia and a Utopia -- a barbaric margin of Europe, but also an area of freedom, natural strength, and robust women who were any man's equal. The book, drawing on travel accounts of the period, is thus historical, but it is conceived under the optics of modern multiculturalism and cultural clashes. The study encompasses areas ranging from botany and geography, to Nordic literature and language, to science and the arts. The book will appeal to students and scholars in the interdisciplinary fields of literary studies, cultural studies, anthropology, history and most European language studies.

Eighteenth Century Stereotypes of the Noah: An Introduction; Northern Timel pravel in the Eighteenth Century: European Invention of Nordic Literature; The GothicTradition and the North: The Image of Gustavus Adolphus and His Men in Seventeenth Century Spain; Mapping the Noah -- Spatial Dimensions and Geographical Concepts of Northern Europe; Johann Gottfried Herder and the North: Elements of a Process of Construction; Barbarians of the North Become the Mirrors of the North; Travelling Mythologies of the North Around 1760: Molesworth, Mallet, Gerstenberg, and several others in Copenhagen; "Upon the Bedrock of Material Things": The Journey to the Past in Danish Archaeological Imagination; A Map of Words -- Mme de Stual's three-dimensional Cartography and Tendered Geography in The Influence alliterative upon Society and Corinne, or Italy; A Nationalist Controversy about Language. Were the Languages in the Nordic Countries Nordic?; The Library at Lovshibrulk: A Utopia; Travelling -- Between Materiality and Mental Constructs: Encounters in Norway in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries; A Humbling Place:Tests of Masculinity in Early Nineteenth CenturyEove[ Narratives from Eapim; Disappearing Tracts, The Vanishing of Christen Pram and hisTravel Account of Norway 1804-11; John Ross and Fr. Blackley -- European Discourses About Inuit and Danes in Greenland 1700-1850; Persistent Patterns The Genre of Travel Writing in the Eighteenth Century; The Order of Stockholm: The "State" of the Swedish Capital Around theYear 1800; The Undiscovered North: Polish Travel Narratives of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries; From Sacred Scenery to Nuclear Nightmare: Rjukan and Its Myths; Index.