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Author Kassis, Dimitrios, author.

Title Icelandic utopia in Victorian travel literature / by Dimitrios Kassis
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016

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Summary This book focuses on Iceland as a nineteenth-century utopian locus in the light of racial theories attached to the country's national framework. In particular, it investigates the ways in which five nineteenth-century travellers define their national identity and gender in relation to Iceland during the Victorian period, during which European nationalism emerges as an idea of paramount importance. Owing to the gradual contemplation of this peripheral word as the cradle of the Germanic nations, Victorian travel writers endeavoured to reconstruct the image of Iceland in accordance with the racia
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed July 20, 2016)
Subject Travelers' writings, English -- 19th century -- History and criticism
English prose literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Utopias in literature.
utopian literature.
Travel writing.
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature & literary studies.
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
English prose literature
Travelers' writings, English
Utopias in literature
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781443893961
144389396X