The Sea of Ice and the Icy Sea: The Arctic Frame of Frankenstein
It has become common for scholars to understand the Arctic framing narrative of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a commentary on the northern expeditions sent out by the British Admiralty after the Napoleonic Wars. According to this view, the character Robert Walton is a surrogate for John Barrow, the...
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The Arctic Institute of North America
2017
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.14430/arctic4669 http://arctic.journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/viewFile/4669/4866 |