White Horizon : The Arctic in the Nineteenth-Century British Imagination

by Hill, Jen

• ISBN13: 9780791472293
• ISBN10: 0791472299
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-11-29
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

From explorers' accounts to boy's adventure fiction, how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain.

Author Biography

Jen Hill is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada at Reno.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Heart of Whiteness	p. 1
National Bodies: Robert Southey's Life of Nelson and John Franklin's Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea	p. 29
A Propitious Hard Frost: The Arctic of Mary Shelley and Eleanor Anne Porden	p. 53
A Pale Blank of Mist and Cloud: Arctic Spaces in Jane Eyre	p. 89
Arctic Highlanders and Englishmen: Dickens, Cannibalism, and Sensation	p. 113
Ends of the Earth, Ends of the Empire: R. M. Ballantyne's Arctic Adventures	p. 151
Notes	p. 175
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 231
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