Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The skepticism displayed by the Times towards the missions sent to rescue Franklin's lost expedition, was, she reveals, abnormal. ![]() Cavell demonstrates, however, that a much more varied and widespread press response occurred, turning the captains into heroes and, especially, turning John Franklin into a national martyr. ![]() We have also tended to judge the popularity of the exploration project by the sales of the narratives produced by the captains when they returned. She shows that our received picture of the place that voyages of Arctic exploration occupied in Victorian culture is flawed: we have tended to follow the line that these voyages were promoted in the Tory Quarterly Review by John Barrow and, as a result, were criticized by its Whig opponents in the Edinburgh and later in the Times. Cavell has dug deeper in the newspaper archives than any previous historian of the subject, and the results are illuminating. Janice Cavell's study investigates familiar material then, but approaches it from a new perspective - that of the popular press. The British obsession with polar exploration - only nominally a search for the Northwest passage, in fact a route to imperial glory and a stage on which to demonstrate the supposed strengths of the national character - has received much attention in scholarly and popular books over the last twenty years. ![]()
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