Geographies of the Romantic North : Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790–1830
by
A. Byrne
Book Details
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
1137311312
ISBN-13
9781137311313
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint
Palgrave Macmillan
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 28th, 2013
Print length
265 Pages
Weight
464 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 13.70 x 2.10 cms
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This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, unprecedented numbers of Britons travelled to the sub-Arctic, foreshadowing the fever for polar exploration that would emerge in the mid-nineteenth century. At the same time, literary and scientific de
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