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Imagining the Arctic

Name: Imagining the Arctic
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing
SKU: 9781784536589
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Heroism, Spectacle and Polar Exploration

Autor: JONES HUW LEWIS

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Oprawa: Twarda

Wydawca: Bloomsbury Publishing

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The image of exploration in the nineteenth century was laden with multiple meanings, and sustained b...

Informacje o książce

Autor

JONES HUW LEWIS

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Twarda

Data wydania

2017

strony

448

EAN

9781784536589

ISBN

9781784536589

Enbook ID

10035288

Wydawca

Bloomsbury Publishing

Waga

824

Wymiary

241 x 168 x 43

Pełny opis

The image of exploration in the nineteenth century was laden with multiple meanings, and sustained by a rapidly expanding visual culture. In theatres, in art, in verse and song, the achievements of explorers were performed before the public, circulated, promoted, celebrated, and manipulated, whilst explorers themselves became, willingly or otherwise, the subjects of huge attention. Exploration was theatre, a spectacular peacetime engagement, and its representation a series of performances: the idea of whether an expedition was successful or not, depended as much upon what was imagined to have happened as to what actually occurred. Huw Lewis-Jones engaging work explores the making of such polar heroes. It describes how and why a cult of polar exploration was constructed and developed in the nineteenth century, examining the diverse ways that heroes were imagined. It's also a story of how the boundaries of the known world were pushed back as blanks were filled on the charts of the north.