«What the nation would not do, a woman did»: Lady Franklin e l’esplorazione artica

• Main Author: Brazzelli, Nicoletta
• Format: Book Part
• Language: Italian
• Published: Ledizioni 2022
• Subjects: littérature en anglais; histoire coloniale et postcoloniale; rapports entre soi et l'autre; rapports entre le centre et les périphéries; fantasmes utopiques; angoisses dystopiques; letteratura in lingua inglese; storia coloniale e postcoloniale; rapporti fra il sé e l’altro; rapporti fra il centro e le periferie; fantasie utopiche; inquietudini distopiche; literature in English; colonial and postcolonial history; relations between the center and the suburbs; utopian fantasies; dystopian anxieties; LIT004120; Literature (General); DSB; Arctic; Canada; McClintock; Northwest Passage; Soi; artica; Northwest passage
• Online Access: http://books.openedition.org/ledizioni/10690

In February 1845 Sir John Franklin was given the command of a naval expedition to find a Northwest Passage in Canada and he set sail on the Erebus, with a three-year supply of provisions: when, in 1848, the expedition had not returned, Lady Jane Franklin was personally involved in the organization o...