How did the Victorian fixation on the disastrous John Franklin
expedition transform our understanding of the Northwest Passage and
the Arctic? Today we still tend to see the Arctic and the Northwest
Passage through nineteenth-century perspectives, which focused on
the discoveries of individual explorers, their illustrated books,
visual culture, imperial ambitions, and high-profile disasters.
However, the farther back one looks, the more striking the
differences appear in how Arctic exploration was envisioned.
Writing Arctic Disaster uncovers a wide range of exploration
cultures: from the manuscripts of secretive corporations like the
Hudson's Bay Company, to the nationalist Admiralty and its
innovative illustrated books, to the searches for and exhibits of
disaster relics in the Victorian era. This innovative study reveals
the dangerous afterlife of this Victorian conflation of exploration
and disaster, in the geopolitical significance accruing around the
2014 discovery of Franklin's ship Erebus in the Northwest Passage.
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