Becoming a "Nation That is Not a Nation": National Image, Lost World Narratives, and American Antarctic Literature

• Main Author: Carroll, Matthew James
• Format: Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Marvel; Nantucket; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://curve.carleton.ca/21d5794b-fe75-4423-b3d1-8243397e3771; http://catalogue.library.carleton.ca/record=b4429538; https://doi.org/10.22215/etd/2017-12061

This dissertation identifies the lost world narrative genre as being central to the history and development of American Antarctic literature, a connection which has not previously been explicitly identified, or explored in any sustained way. As a genre, lost world narratives render places that are “...