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Author:

Craciun, Adriana, 1967- author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00038858

Title:

Writing Arctic disaster : authorship and exploration / Adriana Craciun.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xii, 306 pages ; 26 cm.

Subject:

English fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Arctic regions--In literature.
Northwest Passage--In literature.
Explorers in literature.
Northwest Passage--British.--British.
Arctic regions--British.--British.
Franklin, John,--1786-1847--Influence.
Franklin, John,--1786-1847.
Discovery and exploration, British.
English fiction.
Explorers in literature.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Literature.
Arctic Ocean--Northwest Passage.
Arctic Regions.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Northwest passages and exploration cultures -- Arctic archives: Victorian relics, sites, collections -- Exploration, publication, and inscription in the age of Murray -- Building upon disaster: adventurers in Hudson Bay -- The famous mark of our discovery: social authorship and Arctic inscriptions -- Broken lands and lost relics: the Victorian rediscovery of the early modern Arctic -- Epilogue: Franklin found and lost.

Series:

Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture ; 104

ISBN:

1107125545
9781107125544

OCLC:

(OCoLC)922913231

LCCN:

2016003477

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)