Visual culture and Arctic voyages : : personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions / / Eavan O'Dochartaigh.

• Superior document: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 136
• VerfasserIn: O'Dochartaigh, Eavan,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 136.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2022).

In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eav...