Antarctica in fiction : imaginative narratives of the far south / Elizabeth Leane.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Leane, Elizabeth, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antarctica--In literature.

Antarctica.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.

Contents:

Speculation visions of the south polar regions

Bodies, boundaries and the Antarctic gothic

Creative explorations of the heroic era

The survival value of literature at high latitudes

The transforming nature of Antarctic travel

Freezing time in far southern narratives.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-41163-2

1-107-23140-X

1-280-77377-4

9786613684547

1-139-42301-0

1-139-10783-6

1-139-41999-4

1-139-41795-9

1-139-42204-9

1-139-42408-4

OCLC:

796384365