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Writing Arctic disaster : authorship and exploration /
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 explo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Northwest passages and exploration cultures
- Arctic archives: Victorian relics, sites, collections
- Exploration, publication, and inscription in the age of Murray
- Building upon disaster: adventurers in Hudson Bay
- The famous mark of our discovery: social authorship and Arctic inscriptions
- Broken lands and lost relics: the Victorian rediscovery of the early modern Arctic
- Epilogue: Franklin found and lost.