Geographies of the Romantic North

Science, Antiquarianism, and Travel, 1790-1830
2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-31131-3
Verlag: Springer Nature B.V.

Buch, Englisch, 265 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 4532 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History

This book examines British scientific and antiquarian travels in the "North," circa 1790–1830. British perceptions, representations and imaginings of the North are considered part of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century processes of British self-fashioning as a Northern nation, and key in unifying the expanding North Atlantic empire.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Byrne, A.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I: "MOST VALUABLE AND INTERESTING TO THE SCIENCE OF OUR COUNTRY": NORTHERN EXPLORATORY TRAVELS Introduction: 'Ask Where's the North?' 1. Formative Influences and the Call of the North PART II: A LIVING POMPEII": ANTIQUARIANISM, IDENTITY, AND THE NORTH 2. An 'aboriginal district of Britain': The European North, Popular Culture, and the Search for Common Roots 3. An Intercontinental North: North Britons and Native North Americans 4. Treasures Inestimable: Collecting and Displaying the North PART III: GEOGRAPHIES OF THE NORTH 5. At the Boundary of the Temperate and Frigid Zones: The North, the Sciences, and Landscape Appreciation 6. Worlds of Knowledge, Worlds Apart?: Native and Newcomer Geographies 7. "Our Surprizing Qualifications", or, "Calculated to Make on the Minds of this Simple People a Great Impression": Interpreting Displays of Romantic Science among Northern Indigenous Communities

Über Autor(innen)

Angela Byrne is Lecturer in History at the University of Greenwich, UK.