Geographies of the Romantic North

Part I. “Most Valuable and Interesting to the Science of Our Country”: Northern Exploratory Travels

1. Introduction: “Ask Where’ the North?”
Angela Byrne

2. Formative Influences and the Call of the North
Angela Byrne

Part II. “A Living Pompeii”: Antiquarianism, Identity, and the North

3. An “Aboriginal District of Britain”:* The European North, Traditional Cultures, and the Search for Common Roots
Angela Byrne

4. An Intercontinental North: North Britons and North Americans
Angela Byrne

5. “Treasures Inestimable”: Collecting and Displaying the North
Angela Byrne

Part III. Geographies of the North

6. At the Boundary of the Temperate and Frigid Zones: The North, the Sciences, and Landscape Appreciation
Angela Byrne

7. Worlds of Knowledge, Worlds Apart? Native and Newcomer Geographies
Angela Byrne

8. “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
Angela Byrne

9. Conclusions
Angela Byrne

Avainsanat: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Cultural History, Social History, European History, Modern History