Visual culture and Arctic voyages : personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions / / Eavan O'Dochartaigh [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910585958603321
• Autore: O'Dochartaigh Eavan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge University Press, 2022; Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2022
• ISBN: 1-108-99867-4; 1-108-99887-9; 1-108-99279-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Collana: Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; ; 136
• Classificazione: LIT004120
• Disciplina: 919.8
• Soggetti: Search and rescue operations - Arctic Ocean - History - 19th century; Arctic regions Discovery and exploration British; Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration British
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Mar 2022).; Open Access.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.