Cannibalism, Charles Dickens, and Franklin’s Last Arctic Expedition: “a fate as melancholy and dreadful as it is possible to imagine”
The absence of the figure of the cannibal in The Frozen Deep is central to this study that investigates Dickens’s representation of the fate of Frank- lin’s 1845 Arctic expedition “contrapuntally” (Said 1994: 59) by focusing on his dialogic exchange with Dr. John Rae that is at the origin of Dickens...
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://bgro.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/854/ https://www.ibs.it/transgressive-appetites-deviant-food-practices-libro-vari/e/9788857568973 |