Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration

ISBN-13: 9781107565128 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 326 str.

Adriana Craciun

Opis

This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

Recenzje

'In a superb and subtle analysis of the relationship between print and material culture, Craciun reveals the ways in which the mania for collection and display of relics and debris from from his last expedition cemented popular enthusiasm for the idea of the Arctic as a place of disaster.' Penny Russell, Victorian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: Northwest passages and exploration cultures; 1. Arctic archives: Victorian relics, sites, collections; 2. Exploration, publication, and inscription in the Age of Murray; 3. Building upon disaster: adventurers in Hudson Bay; 4. The famous mark of our discovery: social authorship and arctic inscriptions; 5. Broken lands and lost relics: the Victorian rediscovery of the early modern Arctic; Epilogue: Franklin found and lost.