TY - BOOK ID - 101191308 TI - Visual culture and Arctic voyages : personal and public art and literature of the Franklin search expeditions PY - 2022 SN - 110899279X 1108834337 1108998674 1108998879 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Search and rescue operations KW - History KW - Franklin, John, KW - Travel KW - Terror (Ship) KW - Erebus (Ship) KW - John Franklin Arctic Expedition KW - Arctic regions KW - Northwest Passage KW - Discovery and exploration KW - British. KW - Rescue work KW - Unified operations (Military science) KW - Search dogs KW - Air rescue service KW - Air-sea rescue KW - Franklin, Dzhon, KW - H.M.S. Erebus KW - HMS Erebus KW - HMS Terror KW - H.M.S. Terror KW - Franklin Expedition KW - nineteenth-century literature and cultural history KW - history of exploration and the polar regions KW - naval history KW - visual culture KW - ephemera UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101191308 AB - In the mid-nineteenth century, thirty-six expeditions set out for the Northwest Passage in search of Sir John Franklin's missing expedition. The array of visual and textual material produced on these voyages was to have a profound impact on the idea of the Arctic in the Victorian imaginary. Eavan O'Dochartaigh closely examines neglected archival sources to show how pictures created in the Arctic fed into a metropolitan view transmitted through engravings, lithographs, and panoramas. Although the metropolitan Arctic revolved around a fulcrum of heroism, terror and the sublime, the visual culture of the ship reveals a more complicated narrative that included cross-dressing, theatricals, dressmaking, and dances with local communities. O'Dochartaigh's investigation into the nature of the on-board visual culture of the nineteenth-century Arctic presents a compelling challenge to the 'man-versus-nature' trope that still reverberates in polar imaginaries today. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. ER -