Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
Abstract
Uncovering a wealth of neglected archival information, this book examines both visual and textual material from the mid-nineteenth century Franklin Search Expeditions to the Arctic, painstakingly tracing their influence on popular imagination. Its surprising findings present a compelling challenge to the still-dominant 'man-versus-nature' trope.
Keywords
nineteenth-century literature and cultural history; history of exploration and the polar regions; naval history; visual culture; ephemeraISBN
9781108992794, 9781108834339Publisher
Cambridge University PressPublication date and place
2022Series
Humanities,Classification
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Expeditions: popular accounts
History of art
19th century, c 1800 to c 1899