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Writing Arctic disaster :

(Number (ISBN

131641079X

(Number (ISBN

131654334X

(Number (ISBN

9781316410790

(Number (ISBN

9781316543344

Erroneous ISBN

1107125545

Erroneous ISBN

9781107125544

Title Proper

Writing Arctic disaster :

General Material Designation

[Book]

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authorship and exploration /

First Statement of Responsibility

Adriana Craciun.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Cambridge, United Kingdom :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

[2016]

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource

Series Title

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text of Note

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.

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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 explorers, their illustrated books, visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters. However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned. Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the 2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage.

Title

Writing Arctic disaster.

International Standard Book Number

1107125545

Disasters in literature.

BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Literary.

Disasters in literature.

BIO-- 007000

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Edition

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Craciun, Adriana,1967-

Date of Transaction

20200822145941.0

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pn

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[Book]

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