"Beyond the Veil": The Antarctic Gothic Fictions of Poe, Verne, Leahy, Lovecraft, and Campbell

• Main Author: O'HARE, EDWARD REGINALD
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: Trinity College Dublin. School of English. Discipline of English 1480
• Subjects: Gothic; Antarctica; Edgar Allan Poe; Jules Verne; John Leahy; H.P. Lovecraft; John W. Campbell; Jr; Antarctic; Jules; Leahy; Nantucket; Rime; South Pole; Southern Ocean; Sphinx; The Antarctic; Verne; Antarc*; South pole
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2262/82872; http://people.tcd.ie/ohareer

APPROVED The Antarctic has frequently been a location for Gothic narratives. Ever since Captain Cook declared that it was better for mankind not to know anything about the mysterious land which lay on the other side of the frozen Southern Ocean, the human imagination has been drawn to the far south....