Frédéric Regard

Arctic Exploration in the Nineteenth Century

Discovering the Northwest Passage

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 503g
• ISBN-13: 9781848932722
• ISBN-10: 1848932723
• Artikelnr.: 43750135

Autorenporträt

Frédéric Regard

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Exploration and Sacrifice: The Cultural Logic of Arctic
Discovery, Russell A. Potter; Part I Hubris, Conflicts and Desires; Chapter
1 John Barrow's Darling Project (1816-46), I. S. MacLaren; Chapter 2
Eskimaux, Officers and Gentlemen Sir John Ross in the ICY Fields of
Credibility (1818-46), Frédéric Regard; Chapter 3 'In the Company of
Strangers': Shedding Light on Robert Mcclure's Claim of Discovery (1850-7),
Catherine Pesso-Miquel; Part II Hubris, Confl icts and Desires; Chapter 4
Miss Porden, Mrs Franklin and the Arctic Expeditions: Eleanor Anne Porden
and the Construction of Arctic Heroism (1818-25), Janice Cavell; Chapter 5
Arctic Romance Under a Cloud: Franklin's Second Expedition by Land
(1825-7), Catherine Lanone; Chapter 6 Unremitting Exertions: Sentiment and
Responsibility in Jane Franklin's Correspondence (1854), Penny Russell;
Part III The Northwest Passage in Nineteenth-Century Culture; Chapter 7
Discovery as Cheerful Endurance: William Edward Parry's Quest (1819-25),
Jan Borm; Chapter 8 'Is this the End?': Swinburne's Paradoxical Tribute to
Sir John Franklin (1860), Charlotte Ribeyrol; Chapter 9 A Certain 'Want of
Arch-Inscape'? The Critical Reception of Millais's North-West Passage
(1874), Laurent Bury;