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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schimanski, Johan Henrik
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10852/78538
http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-81607
https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429343704