White horizon : the Arctic in the nineteenth-century British imagination /

"Bridging historical and literary studies, White Horizon explores the importance of the Arctic to British understandings of masculine identity, the nation, and the rapidly expanding British Empire in the nineteenth century. Well before Coleridge's Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hill, Jen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2008.
Colección:SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century.
Temas:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
Geography in literature.
Explorers in literature.
Adventure and adventurers in literature.
Imperialism in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Géographie dans la littérature.
Explorateurs dans la littérature.
Impérialisme dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
English fiction.
Literature.
Arctic regions > In literature.
Arctique > Dans la littérature.
Arctic Regions.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Heart of Whiteness
  • 2. National Bodies: Robert Southey's Life of Nelson and John Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea
  • 3. A Propitious Hard Frost: The Arctic of Mary Shelley and Eleanor Anne Porden
  • 4. A Pale Blank of Mist and Cloud: Arctic Spaces in Jane Eyre
  • 5. Arctic Highlanders and Englishmen: Dickens, Cannibalism, and Sensation
  • 6. Ends of the Earth, Ends of the Empire: R. M. Ballantyne's Arctic Adventures.

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