O'Dochartaigh Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages

Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-108-99887-1
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 0 Seiten

Reihe: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Dochartaigh, Eavan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Tourismus & Reise Expeditions- & Reiseliteratur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. 'On the Spot:' Scientific and personal visual records (1848-1854); 2. 'Breathing Time:' On-Board production of illustrated periodicals (1850-1854); 3. 'These Dread Shores:' Visualizing the Arctic for readers (1850-1860); 4. 'Never to be Forgotten:' Presenting the Arctic panorama (1850); 5. 'Power and Truth:' The authority of lithography (1850-1855); 6. Conclusion: Resonances.

Über Autor(innen)

O'Dochartaigh, Eavan
Eavan O'Dochartaigh is a Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow at National University of Ireland Galway. Prior to this she was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Umeå University in northern Sweden and a Government of Ireland Doctoral Scholar at National University of Ireland Galway. She has also worked as an archaeologist and archaeological illustrator in Ireland, Iceland, and the UK.