Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Hops Home by Patricia A Relf

Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Hops Home by Patricia A Relf

This is the first book-length treatment of the Victorians' fascination with the old north. It explores the ways in which the terms 'Viking' and 'Viking Age', both unknown in 1800, were invented, explored and popularised during thenineteenth century. The material examined - published and unpublished - includes novels, poems, plays, lectures, reviews, secondary school textbooks, saga-stead travelogues, private correspondence, art and music, as well as dictionaries, grammars and scholarly editions of eddas and sagas. In the cast of characters Sir Walter Scott, William Morris, Edward Elgar and Rudyard Kipling appear alongside long-forgotten amateur enthusiasts from Lerwick to the Isleof Wight. We follow the pursuit of Viking-related archaeology, dialectology, folklore, philology, runology and mythology. We see the old north used to legitimise many concepts and causes - from buccaneering mercantilism and imperial expansion to jury trial and women's rights. In drawing this wide range of materials together, Andrew Wawn presents a comprehensive and colourful account of the construction and translation of the Viking Age in Queen Victoria'sBritain. ANDREW WAWN is Professor of Anglo-Icelandic Studies at the University of Leeds.

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ISBN 13	9780590484138
ISBN 10	0590484133
Title	Scholastic's the Magic School Bus Hops Home
Author	Patricia A Relf
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Scholastic US
Year published	1995-02-01
Number of pages	32
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