Winter is here: Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature (R. William Rix)
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https://doi.org/10.22478/ufpb.2595-9107.2025v8n08.76519Abstract
Written by Robert William Rix - professor at the University of Copenhagen - and published by Anthem Press in 2025, Nordic Terrors: Scandinavian Superstition in British Gothic Literature stands as a significant contribution to the field of Anglophone Gothic studies. The book examines how Scandinavian cultural elements were appropriated, re-elaborated, and disseminated within British Gothic literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. On this basis, it is important to note that this brief volume is not a compendium of supernatural motifs or folkloric origins, but rather an investigation into the cultural, political, and identity-based movements that sustained such dialogue. It reveals how British Gothic deployed Nordic imagery to project narratives of cultural cohesion, ancestry, and ethnic affinity.
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