REPRESENTATIONS OF LAPLAND IN BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE: TOWARD ETHNOGRAPHICAL DISSEMINATION?

• Main Author: BRIAND MAXIME
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Федеральное государственное автономное образовательное учреждение высшего профессионального образования Северо-Восточный федеральный университет им. М.К. Аммосова 2016
• Subjects: BRITISH ROMANTICISM,S. T. COLERIDGE,LAPLAND,KNUDLEEM,ARCTIC MYTHOLOGY; Arctic; Macpherson; Lapponia; Lapland
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Romantic representations of Lapland were chiefly the joint product of the eighteenth century primitivist and sublime theory, notably responsible for the ossianic revival initiated by Scottish antiquarian James Macpherson in the 1760s. Still unknown to many, the mythical Gaelic bard Ossian and his po...