Focusing on nineteenth-century attempts to locate the northwest passage, the essays in this volume present this quest as a central element of British culture.
Introduction Exploration and Sacrifice: The Cultural Logic of Arctic
Discovery, Russell A. Potter; Part I Hubris, Conflicts and Desires;
Chapter 1
John Barrows Darling Project (181646), I. S. MacLaren;
Chapter 2 Eskimaux,
Officers and Gentlemen Sir John Ross in the ICY Fields of Credibility
(181846), Frédéric Regard;
Chapter 3 In the Company of Strangers: Shedding
Light on Robert Mcclures Claim of Discovery (18507), Catherine
Pesso-Miquel; Part II Hubris, Confl icts and Desires;
Chapter 4 Miss Porden,
Mrs Franklin and the Arctic Expeditions: Eleanor Anne Porden and the
Construction of Arctic Heroism (181825), Janice Cavell;
Chapter 5 Arctic
Romance Under a Cloud: Franklins Second Expedition by Land (18257),
Catherine Lanone;
Chapter 6 Unremitting Exertions: Sentiment and
Responsibility in Jane Franklins Correspondence (1854), Penny Russell; Part
III The Northwest Passage in Nineteenth-Century Culture;
Chapter 7 Discovery
as Cheerful Endurance: William Edward Parrys Quest (181925), Jan Borm;
Chapter 8 Is this the End?: Swinburnes Paradoxical Tribute to Sir John
Franklin (1860), Charlotte Ribeyrol;
Chapter 9 A Certain Want of
Arch-Inscape? The Critical Reception of Millaiss North-West Passage (1874),
Laurent Bury;
Frédéric Regard
Rohkem infot Taylor & Francis e-raamatute kohta