商品簡介
Whether they were gentlemen of science or proletarians who had to go to pubs to hear novels read to them, Victorians loved the exotic arctic and yet dreaded it as a place of death. Here Potter (English, Rhode Island College) closely analyzes the range of this peculiarly Victorian fascination, covering the complete range of literary and visual efforts, including Ross's accounts of the fictitious Munchausen and serious treatments of actual voyages, works that focused on sensational death above all, and the relatively few works that captured the real beauty of the arctic apart from the misunderstandings and myths. The illustrations here are especially well-chosen, so much so that readers may need to put on a sweater. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Russell A. Potter is professor of English at Rhode Island College. For more information go to http://www.arcticspectacles.info/