Visual culture and Arctic voyages : personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions / Eavan O'Dochartaigh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Dochartaigh, Eavan, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 136.

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 136

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Franklin, John, 1786-1847--Travel--Arctic regions.

Franklin, John.

Terror (Ship).

Erebus (Ship).

John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851).

John Franklin Arctic Expedition.

Search and rescue operations--Arctic Ocean--History--19th century.

Search and rescue operations.

Arctic regions--Discovery and exploration--British.

Arctic regions.

Northwest Passage--Discovery and exploration--British.

Northwest Passage.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : witnessing the Arctic

"On the spot :" scientific and personal visual records (1848-1854)

"Breathing time :" on-board production of illustrated periodicals (1850-1854)

"These dread shores :" visualizing the Arctic for readers (1850-1860)

"Never to be Forgotten :" presenting the Arctic panorama (1850)

"Power and truth :" the authority of lithography (1850-1855)

Conclusion : resonances.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2022).

ISBN:

9781108998673

1108998674

9781108998871

1108998879

9781108992794

110899279X

OCLC:

1492999955

Access Restriction:

Open Access. Unrestricted online access