The Aesthetic Map of the North, 1845-1859

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: MacLaren, I.S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1985
• Subjects: Expeditions; Exploration; Psychology; Search for Franklin; Arctic regions; Northwest Passage; Arctic; Traveller; Arctic Archipelago; Northwest passage
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65169

The aesthetics of the Sublime and the Picturesque comprised the perceptual baggage with which early nineteenth-century British explorers and travellers combed the globe. As important to their identification of space as measurements of longitude and latitude, these two schemata governed the ways in w...