Hill White Horizon

The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-0-7914-7946-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

From explorers’ accounts to boys’ adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hill, Jen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

1. Heart of Whiteness

2. National Bodies: Robert Southey’s Life of Nelson and John Franklin’s Voyage to the Polar Sea

3. A Propitious Hard Frost:The Arctic of Mary Shelley and Eleanor Anne Porden

4. A Pale Blank of Mist and Cloud: Arctic Spaces in Jane Eyre

5. Arctic Highlanders and Englishmen: Dickens, Cannibalism, and Sensation

6. Ends of the Earth, Ends of the Empire: R. M. Ballantyne’s Arctic Adventures

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jen Hill is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada at Reno and editor of An Exhilaration of Wings: The Literature of Birdwatching.