Imagining Iceland: narratives of nature and history in the North Atlantic
This article presents the case of remarkable transformation of the Icelandic landscape in 1783 and 1784 – when a series of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and natural disasters radically altered the country – as a way of elucidating how the cultural meaning of place and different versions of ‘nature...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s000708740200465x 2024-05-12T08:05:49+00:00 Imagining Iceland: narratives of nature and history in the North Atlantic OSLUND, KAREN 2002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s000708740200465x https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S000708740200465X en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms The British Journal for the History of Science volume 35, issue 3, page 313-334 ISSN 0007-0874 1474-001X History and Philosophy of Science History journal-article 2002 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s000708740200465x 2024-04-18T06:54:03Z This article presents the case of remarkable transformation of the Icelandic landscape in 1783 and 1784 – when a series of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and natural disasters radically altered the country – as a way of elucidating how the cultural meaning of place and different versions of ‘nature’ develop. It explores some of the contested interpretations of Icelandic nature that followed this crisis, focusing on the narratives of British geologists, Danish officials and Icelandic nationalists. The different, although sometimes overlapping and complementary, meanings of Icelandic nature developed by these different groups show how science, art and politics are closely intertwined, and how artists’ interpretations and the activities of scientists can perform the same work on landscape, transforming it in different, yet functionally equivalent, ways. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland North Atlantic Cambridge University Press The British Journal for the History of Science 35 3 313 334 |
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This article presents the case of remarkable transformation of the Icelandic landscape in 1783 and 1784 – when a series of volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and natural disasters radically altered the country – as a way of elucidating how the cultural meaning of place and different versions of ‘nature’ develop. It explores some of the contested interpretations of Icelandic nature that followed this crisis, focusing on the narratives of British geologists, Danish officials and Icelandic nationalists. The different, although sometimes overlapping and complementary, meanings of Icelandic nature developed by these different groups show how science, art and politics are closely intertwined, and how artists’ interpretations and the activities of scientists can perform the same work on landscape, transforming it in different, yet functionally equivalent, ways. |
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Imagining Iceland: narratives of nature and history in the North Atlantic |
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Imagining Iceland: narratives of nature and history in the North Atlantic |
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imagining iceland: narratives of nature and history in the north atlantic |
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