Playing the Arctic: Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday
Inspired by Nansen’s accounts of Arctic journeys, the child protagonists of Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday (1933) transform the English lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. This chapter examines how Winter Holiday uses Arctic discourse to articulate shifts...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/78538 2023-05-15T14:21:34+02:00 Playing the Arctic: Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday Schimanski, Johan Henrik 2020-05-15T23:21:25Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/78538 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-81607 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343704 EN eng Routledge NFR/226030 Arctic Modernities http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-81607 Schimanski, Johan Henrik . Playing the Arctic: Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday. The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults. 2020, 189-202 Routledge http://hdl.handle.net/10852/78538 1811326 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.btitle=The Arctic in Literature for Children and Young Adults&rft.spage=189&rft.date=2020 189 202 238 https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343704 URN:NBN:no-81607 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/78538/2/Schimanski%2B-%2BPlaying%2Bthe%2BArctic%2BAAM%2Bpostprint.pdf 9780367360801 VDP::Allmenn litteraturvitenskap: 041 Chapter Bokkapittel Peer reviewed AcceptedVersion 2020 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343704 2021-08-11T22:31:36Z Inspired by Nansen’s accounts of Arctic journeys, the child protagonists of Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday (1933) transform the English lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. This chapter examines how Winter Holiday uses Arctic discourse to articulate shifts in imperialism and gender roles leading up to inter-war modernity. The novel’s disjunctive mappings of the Lake District onto spaces of exploration, along with the fantasy play within the fiction, produce an ambivalence about imperialism; its adventures and entropic images of the fluidity of the ice and the blizzard create a modernist Arctic. Book Part Arctic Arctic Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Arctic English Lake ENVELOPE(-106.601,-106.601,59.500,59.500) |
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Inspired by Nansen’s accounts of Arctic journeys, the child protagonists of Arthur Ransome’s Winter Holiday (1933) transform the English lake on which they spend their holidays into the scene of an Arctic expedition. This chapter examines how Winter Holiday uses Arctic discourse to articulate shifts in imperialism and gender roles leading up to inter-war modernity. The novel’s disjunctive mappings of the Lake District onto spaces of exploration, along with the fantasy play within the fiction, produce an ambivalence about imperialism; its adventures and entropic images of the fluidity of the ice and the blizzard create a modernist Arctic. |
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