Romanticism on Ice: Coleridge, Hogg and the Eighteenth-Century Missions to Greenland
This article discusses the influence of mid-eighteenth century Arctic missionary narratives on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Hogg. I suggest that these narratives offer a new context for the literary Arctic and undermine established readings of polar landscapes as the ultimate example of Romanti...
Published in: | Romanticism on the Net |
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Language: | English |
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Université de Montréal
2007
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Online Access: | http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/015816ar https://doi.org/10.7202/015816ar |
Summary: | This article discusses the influence of mid-eighteenth century Arctic missionary narratives on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and James Hogg. I suggest that these narratives offer a new context for the literary Arctic and undermine established readings of polar landscapes as the ultimate example of Romantic sublimity. |
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