How Jean-Baptiste Charcot came to embrace fear but not anger. Emotions of polar exploration and their communication to the public in the 1900s

Abstract This article makes the case for applying recent developments in the history of emotions, and in particular the concept of “emotional arena”, to the study of past polar expeditions. It focuses on the first Antarctic expedition of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1903–1905), showing how, despite a lack...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Simon-Ekeland, Alexandre
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2024
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247423000384
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247423000384