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 |
|---|---|
| Main Author: | |
| Format: | Text |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Université de Montréal
2007
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7202/015816ar http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/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. |
|---|