Iter Scandinavicum: foreign travelers' views of the late eighteenth-century north. From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: January 1, 1996| Author: Barton, H. Arnold | COPYRIGHT 1996 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The writings of foreign travelers who visited Scandinavia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries provide evidence of the region's change during that time and offer fresh insights on topics native writers did not explore. The writings of religious leaders and French emigres, as well as the impressions of Scandinavia recorded by Thomas Malthus and Mary Wollstonecraft, are analyzed.

Travel accounts were among the most popular reading of the eighteenth century, and it w...

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