According to Lenz, the 19th century interest in the Antarctic serves as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. He examines one literary product of th
Having led students in travel to the Galapagos Islands, Haiti, Belize, and Guatemala, Lenz (English, Chatham U.) has boots-on-the-ground experience to fortify his longstanding interest in the 19th-cen