Haunted Ice, Fearful Sounds, and the Arctic Sublime: Exploring Nineteenth-Century Polar Gothic Space

• Main Author: Katherine Bowers
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester University Press 2017
• Subjects: 945075:Gothic literature:topical; 818048:Arts; Gothic:topical; 923709:Fiction:topical; 1037841:Nineteenth century:topical; 1734553:Comparative literature:topical; Antarctic; Arctic; Nantucket; Rime; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.17613/M6T00K

This article considers a unified polar Gothic as a way of examining texts set in Arctic and Antarctic space. Through analysis of Coleridge's' The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', Shelley's Frankenstein, and Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket , the author crea...