Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages

Eavan O'Dochartaigh

doi:10.1017/9781108992794

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.

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Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages - Title page
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Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions
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Acknowledgements
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Abbreviations and Nomenclature
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Introduction
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Witnessing the Arctic
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Chapter 1 - ‘On the Spot’
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Scientific and Personal Visual Records (1848–1854)
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Chapter 2 - ‘Breathing Time’
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On-Board Production of Illustrated Periodicals (1850–1854)
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Chapter 3 - ‘These Dread Shores’
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Visualising the Arctic for Readers (1850–1860)
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Chapter 4 - ‘Never to Be Forgotten’
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Presenting the Arctic Panorama (1850)
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Chapter 5 - ‘Power and Truth’
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The Authority of Lithography (1850–1855)
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Resonances
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Bibliography
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Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture - Series page
pp ii-ii

Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Figures
pp vi-ix

Acknowledgements
pp x-xiii

Abbreviations and Nomenclature
pp xiv-xvi

Introduction
pp 1-19

Chapter 1 - ‘On the Spot’
pp 20-50

Chapter 2 - ‘Breathing Time’
pp 51-80

Chapter 3 - ‘These Dread Shores’
pp 81-113

Chapter 4 - ‘Never to Be Forgotten’
pp 114-142

Chapter 5 - ‘Power and Truth’
pp 143-174

Chapter 6 - Conclusion
pp 175-180

Notes
pp 181-231

Bibliography
pp 232-255

Index
pp 256-268

Cambridge Studies In Nineteenth-Century Literature And Culture - Series page
pp 269-276

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