Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 1818-1860
by
Janice Cavell
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2008
By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as an ongoing story in the literary sense. Because this 'story' appeared, like so many nineteenth-century novels, in a series of installments in periodicals and reviews, it gained an appeal similar to...