Writing Arctic Disaster: Authorship and Exploration

Přední strana obálky
Cambridge University Press, 17. 3. 2016
How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on the discoveries of individual explorers, their illustrated books, visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters. However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned. Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage.
 

Vybrané stránky

Obsah

List of illustrations
Victorian Relics Sites Collections
Exploration Publication and Inscription in the Age
Adventurers in Hudson
Social Authorship
The Victorian Rediscovery
Franklin Found and Lost
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Další vydání - Zobrazit všechny

Běžně se vyskytující výrazy a sousloví

O autorovi (2016)

Adriana Craciun is Presidential Chair at the University of California, Riverside. Her books include Fatal Women of Romanticism (Cambridge, 2003), British Women Writers and the French Revolution: Citizens of the World (2005), The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences (with Simon Schaffer, forthcoming in 2015), and several collections and editions.

Bibliografické údaje