Antarctica in Fiction
Imaginative Narratives of the Far South
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- Author: Elizabeth Leane, University of Tasmania
- Date Published: June 2012
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- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107020825
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This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists such Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction, including a Mills and Boon novel, a Phantom comic and a Biggles book, as well as countless lost-race romances, espionage thrillers and horror-fantasies. Antarctica in Fiction draws on these sources, as well as film, travel narratives and explorers' own creative writing. It maps the far south as a space of the imagination and argues that only by engaging with this space, in addition to the physical continent, can we understand current attitudes towards Antarctica.
Read more- The first comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica
- Seamlessly draws together high and popular cultural texts
- Responds to new interest in the Antarctic in the centenary year of Scott's ill-fated expedition
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"Encyclopedic in its scope, creative in its organization, and lucidly written, Antarctica in Fiction is a solid, lively, and at times surprising study that encompasses everything from Gothic and utopian treatments of the continent in fiction and film to the literature produced by Antarctic explorers and researchers themselves … [it] is a model of meticulous scholarship that should certainly be part of any university library's holdings."
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Journal of the Fantastic in the ArtsSee more reviews"Drawing on her substantial background in Antarctic studies, Leane offers an engaging analysis of how Antarctica has figured in narrative fiction."
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- Date Published: June 2012
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9781107020825
- length: 259 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 159 x 19 mm
- weight: 0.49kg
- contains: 8 b/w illus.
- availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from TBC
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Speculation visions of the south polar regions
2. Bodies, boundaries and the Antarctic gothic
3. Creative explorations of the heroic era
4. The survival value of literature at high latitudes
5. The transforming nature of Antarctic travel
6. Freezing time in far southern narratives
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