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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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