“It Was an Ancient Mariner”: Sir Ernest Shackleton Rewrites the Romantic Quest

• Published in: Modern Language Quarterly
• Main Author: Hubbell, J. Andrew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Duke University Press 2010
• Subjects: Antarctic; Rime; Shackleton; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/00267929-2010-012; https://read.dukeupress.edu/modern-language-quarterly/article-pdf/71/3/271/270277/MLQ713_02Hubbell.pdf

While other critics have examined how Antarctic literature of the heroic age of exploration reflected masculine ideals and an imperialist agenda, this essay argues that Shackleton consciously structured South, his memoir of the Endurance's voyage, around Coleridge's “Rime of the Ancient Ma...