"One of the bright objects that solace us in these regions": Labour, Leisure, and the Arctic Shipboard Periodical, 1820-1852
This article examines three shipboard periodicals from nineteenth-century admiralty-funded polar expeditions and argues that through these texts, explorers—from able seamen to admirals—validated the English presence in the Arctic as effectively as the imposition of English names on the polar map. Of...
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crjohnshopkinsun:10.1353/vpr.2013.0028 2024-03-03T08:41:31+00:00 "One of the bright objects that solace us in these regions": Labour, Leisure, and the Arctic Shipboard Periodical, 1820-1852 Elce, Erika Behrisch 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2013.0028 en eng Project MUSE Victorian Periodicals Review volume 46, issue 3, page 343-367 ISSN 1712-526X History and Philosophy of Science Literature and Literary Theory journal-article 2013 crjohnshopkinsun https://doi.org/10.1353/vpr.2013.0028 2024-02-03T23:20:40Z This article examines three shipboard periodicals from nineteenth-century admiralty-funded polar expeditions and argues that through these texts, explorers—from able seamen to admirals—validated the English presence in the Arctic as effectively as the imposition of English names on the polar map. Officially sanctioned by the admiralty, however, these publications also performed a more subtle, but no less important, function: while submissions were anonymous and open to all members of the crew, material was carefully vetted by officer-editors, and, in delivering to their readers a carefully constructed cheerfulness, the papers helped maintain shipboard discipline by placing even sailors' leisure activities—writing and reading—under admiralty control. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Johns Hopkins University Press Arctic Victorian Periodicals Review 46 3 343 367 |
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This article examines three shipboard periodicals from nineteenth-century admiralty-funded polar expeditions and argues that through these texts, explorers—from able seamen to admirals—validated the English presence in the Arctic as effectively as the imposition of English names on the polar map. Officially sanctioned by the admiralty, however, these publications also performed a more subtle, but no less important, function: while submissions were anonymous and open to all members of the crew, material was carefully vetted by officer-editors, and, in delivering to their readers a carefully constructed cheerfulness, the papers helped maintain shipboard discipline by placing even sailors' leisure activities—writing and reading—under admiralty control. |
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