Eavan O’Dochartaigh (2022): Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
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… Read More Eavan O’Dochartaigh (2022): Visual Culture and Arctic Voyages Personal and Public Art and Literature of the Franklin Search Expeditions. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.