Stoicism among the Victorians? The Legacy of Old Norse Sagas in William Morris's Utopian Views of Humanity
Victorian intellectuals such as George Webbe Dasent, Thomas Carlyle, Matthew Arnold and William Morris studied Old Norse literature in order to retrace the origins of North Europe and to present the heroic code of behaviour as an ideal ethical model for the Victorians. Not unlike other intellectuals...
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| Language: | English |
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University of Iceland Press
2006
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/11392/463898 |