The Topos of Ragnarök in the Utopian Thought of William Morris

• Main Author: SPINOZZI, Paola
• Other Authors: Katja Schulz, Spinozzi, Paola
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: Universitätsverlag Winter 2011
• Subjects: Gran Bretagna; Islanda; Ottocento; letteratura vittoriana; letteratura norrena; William Morri; utopia; utopismo; News from Nowhere; Edda; Ragnarök; proto-socialismo; Gibbon; Iceland
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11392/1584069; http://www.winter-verlag.de/de/detail/978-3-8253-5935-5/Schulz_Hg_Eddische_Goetter_Edda_Rez_2_/

The reasons why not only William Morris, but also George Webbe Dasent, Thomas Carlyle, Samuel Laing, Matthew Arnold, Charles Kingsley, Edmund Gosse, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and James Russell Lowell all read, translated and rewrote Old Norse literature are large-scale, encompassing the history of...