Idea of North
1st Edition
Published on 31. October 2000
272 pages
978-1-86189-563-9 (ISBN)
Description
An exploration of how 'north' has been represented in art and literature.
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Peter Davidson
The Idea of North
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Content
- Cover
- The Idea of North
- Imprint Page
- Contents
- Introduction: True North
- I. Histories
- Ideas of North from Antiquity to the Twentieth Century
- Treasures and Marvels of the North
- II. Imaginations of North
- Ice and Glass
- The North in the 1930s: Auden and Ravilious
- Imagined Northern Territories
- Northern Summer
- Northern Exile
- Revenants
- III. Topographies
- Scandinavia
- Japan and China
- Canada
- Britain
- Epilogue: Keeping the Twilight
- References
- Acknowledgements
- Photographic Acknowledgements
- Index
