Arctic circles: circuits of sociability, intimacy and imperial knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818-1828
This chapter examines how explorers’ wives and families managed both information and trauma during the British search for the Northwest Passage in the 1820s. In their relatives’ absence, women circulated gifts, specimens, and correspondence within elite social and scientific networks in metropolitan...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:39415 2023-05-15T14:22:15+02:00 Arctic circles: circuits of sociability, intimacy and imperial knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818-1828 Jacobs, A Edmonds, P Nettlebeck, A 2018 application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document https://eprints.utas.edu.au/39415/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/39415/1/ARCTIC%20CIRCLES,%20Final%20Draft.docx en eng Palgrave Macmillan https://eprints.utas.edu.au/39415/1/ARCTIC%20CIRCLES,%20Final%20Draft.docx Jacobs, A 2018 , 'Arctic circles: circuits of sociability, intimacy and imperial knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818-1828', in P Edmonds and A Nettlebeck (eds.), Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony , Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. 203-223. exploration women indigenous peoples collecting trauma Book Section NonPeerReviewed 2018 ftunivtasmania 2021-12-13T23:18:38Z This chapter examines how explorers’ wives and families managed both information and trauma during the British search for the Northwest Passage in the 1820s. In their relatives’ absence, women circulated gifts, specimens, and correspondence within elite social and scientific networks in metropolitan London, and shored up explorers’ reputations as respectable and creditable observers unchanged by their harrowing experiences on the margins of North America. As a result, explorers and family members were both entangled in the fraught intimacies of the field, relationships that developed from explorers’ reliance on Indigenous authorities, mixed-race families, and vernacular agents, as well as the close bonds formed among men suffering trauma. Book Part Arctic Arctic Northwest passage University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Arctic Northwest Passage |
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This chapter examines how explorers’ wives and families managed both information and trauma during the British search for the Northwest Passage in the 1820s. In their relatives’ absence, women circulated gifts, specimens, and correspondence within elite social and scientific networks in metropolitan London, and shored up explorers’ reputations as respectable and creditable observers unchanged by their harrowing experiences on the margins of North America. As a result, explorers and family members were both entangled in the fraught intimacies of the field, relationships that developed from explorers’ reliance on Indigenous authorities, mixed-race families, and vernacular agents, as well as the close bonds formed among men suffering trauma. |
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https://eprints.utas.edu.au/39415/1/ARCTIC%20CIRCLES,%20Final%20Draft.docx Jacobs, A 2018 , 'Arctic circles: circuits of sociability, intimacy and imperial knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818-1828', in P Edmonds and A Nettlebeck (eds.), Intimacies of Violence in the Settler Colony , Palgrave Macmillan, United Kingdom, pp. 203-223. |
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