Between the Darkness of Barbarism and the Light of Civilization: British Images of the Finn in the Late Eighteenth Century
This article aims to show that it was the British travellers (Coxe, Tooke, Clarke, et al.) to Finland in the late eighteenth century who discovered Finland for the British reading public. As they distinguished the Finns as a separate ‘race’ from the Russians, the Swedes, and the Lapps, they contribu...
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| Language: | Danish |
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Septentrio Academic Publishing
2014-12-01
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| Series: | Sjuttonhundratal |
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| Online Access: | https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/1700/article/view/3245 |