Adriana Craciun

Writing Arctic Disaster

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Produktbeschreibung

This fascinating study examines how Victorian fixation on disastrous Northwest Passage expeditions has conditioned our understanding of the Arctic and Polar exploration.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9781107565128
• ISBN-10: 110756512X
• Artikelnr.: 47085305

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.