Search for dissertations about: "“The Atlantis"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words “The Atlantis.

  2. 1. “One of the Most Intensely Exciting Secrets” : The Antarctic in American Literature, 1820-1849

    Author : Johan Wijkmark; Åke Bergvall; Mark Troy; Orm Øverland; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Adam Seaborn; Symzonia; James Fenimore Cooper; Monikins; Sea Lions; Edgar Allan Poe; “MS. Found in a Bottle; ” Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym; Peter Prospero; “The Atlantis; ” Antarctic literature; 19th-century American literature; utopia; Symmes; hollow earth; evolution; great chain of being; race; Literature; Litteraturvetenskap; English; Engelska;

    Abstract : This study examines a small body of 19th-century American literature about the Antarctic: Adam Seaborn's (pseud.) Symzonia (1820), Edgar Allan Poe's "MS. Found in a Bottle" (1833) and The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym (1838), Peter Prospero's (pseud. READ MORE

  4. 2. A Pilgrimage to the Past : Johannes Bureus and the Rise of Swedish Antiquarian Scholarship, 1600-1650

    Author : Matthew Norris; Avdelningen för idé- och lärdomshistoria; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Bureus; Antiquarianism; History of Scholarship; Runology; History of Writing; Ancient Wisdom;

    Abstract : At the end of the eighteenth century, Edward Gibbon described the antiquarian scholars of previous generations as men of “profound learning and easy faith.” His exemplar was the Swedish polymath Olof Rudbeck, who in a series of frantic and combative tomes sought to portray Sweden as the model for Plato’s Atlantis and the seething cultural cauldron from which Western civilization had emerged. READ MORE