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Constructing the Rhine
Joanne Yao
can seldom be drawn faster than at the rate of six English miles a day, against the stream’, requiring a fortnight to make the journey (Radcliffe 2009 [1794] : 153). In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , published in 1818, Dr. Frankenstein attempts to journey by boat from Switzerland to Rotterdam along the Rhine and then back to England. As expected, Frankenstein describes the ruined castles, tremendous precipices, and meandering river being so captivating that ‘even I, depressed in mind, and my spirits continually agitated by