Cool Nature
Utopian Landscapes in Sweden 1780-1840
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5664093 |
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| Authors | Anna Albrektson (0000-0002-2467-0522, Stockholm University, corresponding author), Mikael Ahlund (0000-0002-6714-4223, Uppsala University), Simon Ekström (0000-0002-9399-0159, Stockholm University), J E Pontara (0000-0003-1731-0366, Stockholm University), Elisabeth Mansén (0000-0002-0823-2442, Stockholm University), Vera Sundin (0000-0002-8879-6597, Stockholm University), Meike Wagner (0000-0002-1003-3979, Stockholm University), Erik Wallrup (0000-0002-9218-2029, Södertörn University) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Pages | 94-116 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | 1700-tal: Nordic Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1652-4772 • E-ISSN: 2001-9866 |
| Publisher | UiT The Arctic University of Norway (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7557/4.6575 |
| OpenAlex | W4313409306 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 1 |
In this essay, an interdisciplinary group of researchers sets out to address the period 1780-1840 in Sweden in a new way, by placing nature at its centre. With the help of ecocritical and transcultural theory, combined with renewed attention to the Swedish fine arts, learned discourses, and practices, we suggest a new approach to these revolutionary decades. The perceived dissonance, the interplay between climatic conditions and cultural template in early modern and modern Sweden, has not been fully addressed in current research, despite the fact that the relationship between humankind and the environment is a central issue in contemporary society and scholarship. Representations of nature situate the nation, they negotiate the relationship between a sensed reality and an ideal, between human and more-than-human beings. We suggest a focus on the unpredictable space created by negotiations of nature in Swedish representations during this crucial period, and, furthermore, on the ways in which this creative space is charged with utopian possibilities in the early Anthropocene. This is the background and the driving force of the planned research project 'Cool Nature: Utopian Landscapes in Sweden 1780-1840
Aesthetics · Anthropocene · Art · Cognitive dissonance · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Negotiation · Period (music · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · The arts · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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