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White horizon :

(Number (ISBN

0791472299

(Number (ISBN

0791472302

(Number (ISBN

9780791472293

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9780791472309

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b791973

Title Proper

White horizon :

General Material Designation

[Book]

Other Title Information

the Arctic in the nineteenth-century British imagination /

First Statement of Responsibility

Jen Hill.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Albany :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

State University of New York Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2008.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

viii, 238 pages ;

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24 cm.

Series Title

SUNY series, studies in the long nineteenth century

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-230) and index.

Text of Note

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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Text of Note

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 Frankenstein, polar space had come to represent the limit of both empire and human experience. Using a variety of texts, from explorers' accounts to boys' adventure fiction, as well as provocative and fresh readings of the works of Mary Shelley, Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins, Jen Hill illustrates the function of Arctic space in the nineteenth-century British social imagination, arguing that the desolate north was imagined as a 'pure' space, a conveniently blank page on which to write narratives of Arctic exploration that both furthered and critiqued British imperialism.

Adventure and adventurers in literature.

English fiction-- 19th century-- History and criticism.

Explorers in literature.

Geography in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Adventure and adventurers in literature.

Arktis (Motiv)

Englisch.

English fiction.

Erforschung.

Erforschung.

Explorers in literature.

Geography in literature.

Imperialism in literature.

Literatur.

Literatur.

Literature.

Männlichkeit (Motiv)

Männlichkeit (Motiv)

Arctic regions, In literature.

Arctic Regions.

Arktis (Motiv)

Englisch.

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Hill, Jen.

Date of Transaction

20201207051328.0

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