Northern noble savages? Edward Daniel Clarke and British primitivist narratives on Scotland and Scandinavia, c.1760-1822

• Main Authors: Andersson Burnett, Linda Carin Cecilia, Burnett, Linda Carin Cecilia Andersson
• Other Authors: Ahnert, Thomas, Manning, Susan, Newby, Andrew, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), George Scott Travelling scholarship, Strathmartine Trust
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Edinburgh 2012
• Subjects: primitivism; noble savage; Scandinavia; Scotland; travel literature; natural history; Clarke; Edward Daniel; 1769-1822; Traveller; sami; Lapland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1842/6410

This thesis analyses a growing metropolitan British fascination with northern Scandinavia and Scotland towards the end of the eighteenth century. These two northern regions underwent a dramatic transformation, from being places people avoided to being realms writers considered worthy of visiting, ob...