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Rix Robert William

Rix Robert William - Nordic Terrors Scandinavian Superstition In British Gothic Literature - Paperback

Rix Robert William - Nordic Terrors Scandinavian Superstition In British Gothic Literature - Paperback

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Description: 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.
Title: Nordic Terrors Scandinavian Superstition In British Gothic Literature
Author(s): Rix Robert William
Publisher: Anthem Press
Barcode: 9781839990458
Pages: 200 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2024
Series: Anthem Studies in Gothic Literature
Category: Norse Religion & Mythology
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