ARCTIC EXPLORATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: DISCOVERING THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE
EMPIRES IN PERSPECTIVE
Series Editor: | Durba Ghosh |
Advisory Editor: | Masaie Matsumura |
TITLES IN THIS SERIES
1 Between Empire and Revolution: A Life of Sidney Bunting, 18731936
Allison Drew
2 A Wider Patriotism: Alfred Milner and the British Empire
J. Lee Thompson
3 Missionary Education and Empire in Late Colonial India, 18601920
Hayden J. A. Bellenoit
4 Transoceanic Radical, William Duane: National Identity and Empire, 17601835
Nigel Little
5 Natural Science and the Origins of the British Empire
Sarah Irving
6 Empire of Political Thought: Indigenous Australians and the Language of Colonial Government
Bruce Buchan
7 The English Empire in America, 16021658: Beyond Jamestown
L. H. Roper
8 India in the French Imagination: Peripheral Voices, 17541815
Kate Marsh
9 British Narratives of Exploration: Case Studies on the Self and Other
Frdric Regard (ed.)
10 Law and Imperialism: Criminality and Constitution in Colonial India and Victorian England
Preeti Nijhar
11 Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture during the Era of Abolition
Christer Petley
12 Australian Between Empires: The Life of Percy Spender
David Lowe
13 The Theatre of Empire: Frontier Performances in America, 17501860
Douglas S. Harvey
14 Anglo-Spanish Rivalry in Colonial South-East America, 16501725
Timothy Paul Grady
15 Royal Patronage, Power and Aesthetics in Princely India
Angma Dey Jhala
16 British Engineers and Africa, 18751914
Casper Andersen
17 Ireland and Empire, 16921770
Charles Ivar McGrath
18 Race and Identity in the Tasman World, 17691840
Rachel Standfield
19 The Quest for the Northwest Passage: Knowledge, Nation and Empire, 15761806
Frdric Regard (ed.)
FORTHCOMING TITLES
Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia
Nicole Starbuck
Class and Colonialism in Antarctic Exploration, 17501920
Ben Maddison
ARCTIC EXPLORATION IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY:
DISCOVERING THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE
EDITED BY
Frdric Regard
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Arctic exploration in the nineteenth century: discovering the Northwest Passage. (Empires in perspective)
1. Northwest Passage Discovery and exploration British. 2. Franklin, John, Sir, 17861847.
I. Series II. Regard, Frederic.
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CONTENTS
Russell A. Potter
I. S. MacLaren
Frdric Regard
Catherine Pesso-Miquel
Janice Cavell
Catherine Lanone
Penny Russell
Jan Borm
Charlotte Ribeyrol
Laurent Bury
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
Jan Borm is Professor of English Literature and Director of the European Centre for the Arctic (Centre europen pour lArctique) at the University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France. He has published widely on travel literature in English, French and German and is the author of Jean Malaurie, un homme singulier (Paris: Editions du Chne, 2005).
Laurent Bury is Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Lyon, France and the president of the French Society for Victorian and Edwardian Studies. He is the author of Seductive Strategies in the Novels of Anthony Trollope (Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2004) and LOrientalisme victorien dans les arts visuels et la littrature (Grenoble: ELLUG, 2010). He has published articles on Millais, Ruskin and various other Victorian writers, painters and art critics.
Janice Cavell is a historian in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Ottawa, and an Adjunct Research Professor at Carleton University. She is the author of Tracing the Connected Narrative: Arctic Exploration in British Print Culture, 18181860 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008) and co-author of Acts of Occupation: Canada and Arctic Sovereignty, 191825 (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2010). Forthcoming articles include Making Books for Mr Murray: The Case of Edward Parrys Third Arctic Narrative (The Library) and Publishing Franklins Fate: Cannibalism, Journalism, and the 1881 Edition of Leopold McClintocks The Voyage of the Fox in the Arctic Seas (Book History).
Catherine Lanone is a Professor of English Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. She has published books on Emily Bront and E. M. Forster, and a variety of articles on nineteenth-century and twentieth-century literature. She is currently working on retro-Victorian fiction and fictional accounts of Franklins expeditions.
I. S. MacLaren is a Professor at the University of Alberta, where he teaches history and literature. His research interests include explorers and travel writing and sketching as they relate to published narratives and engravings, Canadian history, Canadian literature, print culture, post-1500 exploration, polar history and the history of national parks. A recent essay is In Consideration of the Evolution of Explorers and Travellers into Authors: A Model, Studies in Travel Writing, 15:3 (September 2011), pp. 22141.
Catherine Pesso-Miquel is a Professor of English Literature at the University of Lyon. Her research focuses on the contemporary novel and on travel literature, exploring questions related to identity, migration and the intermingling of literature and religious fundamentalisms. She has published articles on travel narratives by Willa Cather and Edith Wharton, and monographs on Salman Rushdie and Anita Desai.
Russell A. Potter
