The Spectral Arctic
Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of A...
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ftopenresearchl:oai:biblioboard.com:1a49ee35-9e9b-454c-9302-31c97e342464 2023-05-15T14:34:28+02:00 The Spectral Arctic McCorristine, Shane 2018-01-01T00:00:00Z application/pdf https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/1a49ee35-9e9b-454c-9302-31c97e342464 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/1a49ee35-9e9b-454c-9302-31c97e342464/assets/external_content.pdf https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352452 English eng UCL Press https://openresearchlibrary.org/viewer/1a49ee35-9e9b-454c-9302-31c97e342464 https://openresearchlibrary.org/ext/api/media/1a49ee35-9e9b-454c-9302-31c97e342464/assets/external_content.pdf ISBN:9781787352452 doi:10.14324/111.9781787352452 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode CC-BY-NC-ND MODID-9711fe05997:UCL Press History / Americas (north Central South West Indies) bisacsh:HIS038000 History bisacsh:HIS000000 History / Historical Geography bisacsh:HIS052000 BOOK 2018 ftopenresearchl https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787352452 2021-03-17T09:55:31Z Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships. Book Arctic Iceberg* inuit Northwest passage Open Research Library Arctic Northwest Passage |
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Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships. |
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