Exotic Norths? Representations of Northern Scandinavia in S. H. Kent's Within the Arctic Circle and Bayard Taylor's Northern Travel

• Published in: Nordlit
• Main Author: Leavenworth, Maria Lindgren
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Norwegian
• Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2010
• Subjects: Bayard Taylor; S. H. Kent; Northern Travel; Within the Arctic Circle; exoticising exoticism; imperialist exoticism; Scandinavia; the North; discourse; modernity; Arctic; Bayard; sami; midnight sun
• Online Access: https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1047; https://doi.org/10.7557/13.1047

In this article I analyse aspects connected to exoticism in Bayard Taylor's Northern Travel (1858) and Susannah Henrietta Kent's Within the Arctic Circle (1877). Despite gender differences and different seasons in which the travellers undertake their trips, there are similarities between t...