Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions

• Main Author: O'Dochartaigh, Eavan (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press 2022
• Series: Humanities
• Subjects: Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900; Expeditions; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; nineteenth-century literature and cultural history; history of exploration and the polar regions; naval history; visual culture; ephemera
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Summary

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.

ISBN

9781108992794
9781108834339

DOI

10.1017/9781108992794

Access

Open Access