Visual culture and Arctic voyages : : personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions / / Eavan O'Dochartaigh.
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...
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Superior document: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 136 |
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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). |
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Summary: | 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. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. |
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ISBN: | 1108998674 1108998879 110899279X |
Access: | Open Access. |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Eavan O'Dochartaigh. |