TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Dochartaigh,Eavan
TI  - Visual culture and Arctic voyages: personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions 
T2  - Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
SN  - 9781108992794 (ebook)
AV  - G625 .O36 2022
U1  - 919.8 23/eng/20211214
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Franklin, John,
KW  - Terror (Ship)
KW  - Erebus (Ship)
KW  - John Franklin Arctic Expedition
KW  - (1845-1851)
KW  - Search and rescue operations
KW  - Arctic Ocean
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Arctic regions
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - British
KW  - Northwest Passage
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2022); Introduction : witnessing the Arctic -- "On the spot :" scientific and personal visual records (1848-1854) -- "Breathing time :" on-board production of illustrated periodicals (1850-1854) -- "These dread shores :" visualizing the Arctic for readers (1850-1860) -- "Never to be Forgotten :" presenting the Arctic panorama (1850) -- "Power and truth :" the authority of lithography (1850-1855) -- Conclusion : resonances; Open Access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108992794
ER  -