Title Visual culture and Arctic voyages : personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions / Eavan O'Dochartaigh, Umeå Universitet, Sweden

Published Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource Series Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture Contents 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 Summary "In 1845, Sir John Franklin and his crew set out from London on the ships Terror and Erebus for the Northwest Passage that was thought to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans via the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. When the Franklin expedition failed to return, numerous search expeditions (thirty-six in all) were sent in its wake, producing hundreds of sketches, paintings, and texts that ultimately fed into a fascination with the Arctic. Very little research has been done on the visual records of Arctic exploration during this period. This is despite a burgeoning of interest in the polar regions in general, specifically in the literary Arctic and Antarctic, and the discovery of the two Franklin ships (in 2014 and 2016). The visual informed, and continues to inform, our ideas of the polar regions in crucial ways. This book follows the depiction of the Arctic from the ship to the shore, beginning in the Northwest Passage and ending in the metropole, continually returning to the Arctic through the eyes of the little-known expedition members who took part in the search for Franklin"-- Provided by publisher Analysis nineteenth-century literature and cultural history history of exploration and the polar regions naval history visual culture ephemera Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Franklin, John, 1786-1847 -- Travel -- Arctic regions SUBJECT Franklin, John, 1786-1847. fast (OCoLC)fst01898034 Subject Terror (Ship) Erebus (Ship) SUBJECT Erebus (Ship) fast (OCoLC)fst00586139 Terror (Ship) fast (OCoLC)fst00586138 John Franklin Arctic Expedition (1845-1851) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007116786 Subject Search and rescue operations -- Arctic Ocean -- History -- 19th century Arctic regions -- Discovery and exploration -- British LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. Discoveries in geography -- British. Search and rescue operations. Travel. SUBJECT Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- British Subject Arctic Ocean. Arctic Ocean -- Northwest Passage. Arctic Regions. Genre/Form History. Form Electronic book LC no. 2021051457 ISBN 9781108992794 110899279X

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