The spectral Arctic : : a history of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration / / Shane McCorristine.
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of A...
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| Place / Publishing House: | London : : UCL Press,, 2018. |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 265 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction Arctic dreams
- 1
- Otherworldly quests for a Northwest Passage
- 19
- Shamanism reveries wandering
- 52
- 3 Mesmerism clairvoyance and the search for the lost Franklin expedition
- 79
- The Franklin mystery renewed
- 139
- Women in Arctic discourses
- 170
- 6 The spectral place of the Franklin expedition in contemporary culture
- 201
- Afterword The discoveries of the Erebus and Terror
- 227
- Notes
- 234
- Bibliography
- 241
- Index
- 261
- BackCover
- 267
- Copyright.