Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages : Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions EPUB
by Eavan O'Dochartaigh
Part of the Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture series
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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.
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