Visual Culture And Arctic Voyages
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Author | : Eavan O'Dochartaigh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108998674 |
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In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : Eavan O'Dochartaigh |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 9781108992794 |
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"In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his crew set out from London on the ships Terror and Erebus for the Northwest Passage that was thought to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. When the Franklin expedition failed to return, numerous search expeditions (thirty-six in all) were sent in its wake, producing hundreds of sketches, paintings, and texts that ultimately fed into a fascination with the Arctic. Very little research has been done on the visual records of Arctic exploration during this period. This is despite a burgeoning of interest in the polar regions in general, specifically in the literary Arctic and Antarctic, and the discovery of the two Franklin ships (in 2014 and 2016). The visual informed, and continues to inform, our ideas of the polar regions in crucial ways. This book follows the depiction of the Arctic from the ship to the shore, beginning in the Northwest Passage and ending in the metropole, continually returning to the Arctic through the eyes of the little-known expedition members who took part in the search for Franklin"--
Author | : Eavan O'Dochartaigh |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2022-03-10 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108834337 |
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Uncovering a wealth of archival information, Eavan O'Dochartaigh gives fresh and surprising insight into the Victorian image of the Arctic.
Author | : Russell A. Potter |
Publisher | : Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780295986791 |
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The nineteenth-century fascination with visual representations of the Arctic is illuminated in this history that weaves together a narrative of the major Arctic expeditions with an account of their public reception through art and mass media. Simultaneous.
Author | : Janice Cavell |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2008-12-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1442691697 |
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By the 1850s, journalists and readers alike perceived Britain's search for the Northwest Passage as an ongoing story in the literary sense. Because this 'story' appeared, like so many nineteenth-century novels, in a series of installments in periodicals and reviews, it gained an appeal similar to that of fiction. Tracing the Connected Narrative examines written representations of nineteenth-century British expeditions to the Canadian Arctic. It places Arctic narratives in the broader context of the print culture of their time, especially periodical literature, which played an important role in shaping the public's understanding of Arctic exploration. Janice Cavell uncovers similarities between the presentation of exploration reports in periodicals and the serialized fiction that, she argues, predisposed readers to take an interest in the prolonged quest for the Northwest Passage. Cavell examines the same parallel in relation to the famous disappearance and subsequent search for the Franklin expedition. After the fate of Sir John Franklin had finally been revealed, the Illustrated London News printed a list of earlier articles on the missing expedition, suggesting that the public might wish to re-read them in order to 'trace the connected narrative' of this chapter in the Arctic story. Through extensive research and reference to new archival material, Cavell undertakes this task and, in the process, recaptures and examines the experience of nineteenth-century readers.
Author | : Adriana Craciun |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-03-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1316539040 |
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How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on the discoveries of individual explorers, their illustrated books, visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters. However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned. Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage.
Author | : ARCTIC VOYAGES. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1831 |
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Download Arctic Voyages; Being an Account of Discoveries in the North Polar Seas, Etc. [With Plates.] Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Charles Martindale |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 331 |
Release | : 2023-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108835899 |
Download Walter Pater and the Beginnings of English Studies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The first collected study of Pater's significance to criticism, revealing his pivotal role in establishing principles of the literary essay.
Author | : Rosalind Parry |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2023-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009272012 |
Download The Art of the Reprint Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Art of the Reprint is a vivid and engaging history of the nineteenth-century novel as it was re-imagined for everyday readers by four extraordinary twentieth-century illustrators. It focuses especially on four reprints: a 1929 edition of Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Native (1878) with engravings by Clare Leighton, a 1930 edition of Herman Melville's Moby Dick (1851) with images by Rockwell Kent, a 1943 edition of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre (1847) with woodblocks by Fritz Eichenberg, and a complete set of Jane Austen's novels (1786-1817) illustrated from 1957 to 1974 by Joan Hassall. Taken together, these reprints are indicative of a legacy crafted from historical distance, through personal, political, and artistic circumstance, and for a new century. With biographical, archival, and art- and literary-historical sources as well as close readings of images and texts, this is a richly illustrated account of how artists reinvent canons for the general reader.
Author | : Matthew Rowlinson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2024-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009409956 |
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Centring on Darwin and on literature throughout the nineteenth century, this book documents a general crisis in the species concept.