This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.
This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.
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.
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Introduction: Northwest passages and exploration cultures 1. Arctic archives: Victorian relics, sites, collections 2. Exploration, publication, and inscription in the Age of Murray 3. Building upon disaster: adventurers in Hudson Bay 4. The famous mark of our discovery: social authorship and arctic inscriptions 5. Broken lands and lost relics: the Victorian rediscovery of the early modern Arctic Epilogue: Franklin found and lost.
Introduction: Northwest passages and exploration cultures 1. Arctic archives: Victorian relics, sites, collections 2. Exploration, publication, and inscription in the Age of Murray 3. Building upon disaster: adventurers in Hudson Bay 4. The famous mark of our discovery: social authorship and arctic inscriptions 5. Broken lands and lost relics: the Victorian rediscovery of the early modern Arctic Epilogue: Franklin found and lost.
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