The spectral Arctic a history of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration

Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: McCorristine, Shane, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : UCL Press 2018.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746534806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction Arctic dreams
  • 1
  • Otherworldly quests for a Northwest Passage
  • 19
  • Shamanism reveries wandering
  • 52
  • 3 Mesmerism clairvoyance and the search for the lost Franklin expedition
  • 79
  • The Franklin mystery renewed
  • 139
  • Women in Arctic discourses
  • 170
  • 6 The spectral place of the Franklin expedition in contemporary culture
  • 201
  • Afterword The discoveries of the Erebus and Terror
  • 227
  • Notes
  • 234
  • Bibliography
  • 241
  • Index
  • 261
  • BackCover
  • 267
  • Copyright.