Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages (eBook)

Eavan O'Dochartaigh (Autor)

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2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-99887-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.3.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 1-108-99887-9 / 1108998879
• ISBN-13: 978-1-108-99887-1 / 9781108998871