What Is an Explorer?
This essay argues that the undertheorized “Explorer” was a later nineteenth-century back-formation, and not the origin of exploration practices and texts. Comparing diverse early nineteenth-century Greenland voyages to 1730s geodetic expeditions, we can see how and why the Explorer began to appear a...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/ecs.2011.0044 2024-06-23T07:53:18+00:00 What Is an Explorer? Craciun, Adriana 2011 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2011.0044 en eng Project MUSE Eighteenth-Century Studies volume 45, issue 1, page 29-51 ISSN 1086-315X journal-article 2011 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/ecs.2011.0044 2024-06-06T04:16:09Z This essay argues that the undertheorized “Explorer” was a later nineteenth-century back-formation, and not the origin of exploration practices and texts. Comparing diverse early nineteenth-century Greenland voyages to 1730s geodetic expeditions, we can see how and why the Explorer began to appear at the turn of the nineteenth century. The distinct regulatory and corporate domains, predisciplinary vantage points, and bibliographic codes, through which exploration accounts were produced often differed radically from those in commercial authorship in the long eighteenth century. I suggest that the commonplace identification of Explorer with the proprietary commercial Author is misleading, and that it provides an opportunity for discerning asynchronous strands in the history of authorship and print. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland Johns Hopkins University Press Greenland Eighteenth-Century Studies 45 1 29 51 |
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This essay argues that the undertheorized “Explorer” was a later nineteenth-century back-formation, and not the origin of exploration practices and texts. Comparing diverse early nineteenth-century Greenland voyages to 1730s geodetic expeditions, we can see how and why the Explorer began to appear at the turn of the nineteenth century. The distinct regulatory and corporate domains, predisciplinary vantage points, and bibliographic codes, through which exploration accounts were produced often differed radically from those in commercial authorship in the long eighteenth century. I suggest that the commonplace identification of Explorer with the proprietary commercial Author is misleading, and that it provides an opportunity for discerning asynchronous strands in the history of authorship and print. |
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