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The Golden Horns
As an introduction to modern myth, The Golden Horns masterfully encompasses a wide circle of historical and literary materials. John Greenway first establishes the theoretical base of his discussion by examining the nature of time in Norse mythic consciousness. After suggesting several ways in which the mythic apprehension of reality conditioned medieval Icelandic narrative, he then elaborates on the dialectical relationship between myth and reason. Maintaining that myth is neither true nor false but always either expressive or not, the author then traces the origin, rise, and fall of two great modern myths of northern birth: seventeenth century Swedish Gothicism and the Ossianic craze of th...
The Heavens on Earth
The Heavens on Earth explores the place of the observatory in nineteenth-century science and culture. Astronomy was a core pursuit for observatories, but usually not the only one. It belonged to a larger group of “observatory sciences” that also included geodesy, meteorology, geomagnetism, and even parts of physics and statistics. These pursuits coexisted in the nineteenth-century observatory; this collection surveys them as a coherent whole. Broadening the focus beyond the solitary astronomer at his telescope, it illuminates the observatory’s importance to technological, military, political, and colonial undertakings, as well as in advancing and popularizing the mathematical, physical...
The Power of Character
"This is a study of continuity and change in middle-class conceptions of ideal manhood. The theoretical cues in this work are the notions of the male as an unproblematised and genderless norm, masculinity as homosocial, and George L. Mosse's use of counter"
The Old Norse Element in Swedish Romanticism
Deals with a number of heterogeneous writers bound together by a common interest in Scandinavian antiquity. Strives to characterize the interest and to collect and examine literary moments from 1810-1825 that make use of Scandinavian saga.
Tidskriften Frey
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Publications of the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study
Includes proceedings of the society.
Svensk Boklexikon
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