Antarctica in Fiction

Imaginative Narratives of the Far South

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, British, Nonfiction, History
Cover of the book Antarctica in Fiction by Dr Elizabeth Leane, Cambridge University Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Dr Elizabeth Leane ISBN: 9781139411639
Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publication: June 29, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press Language: English
Author: Dr Elizabeth Leane
ISBN: 9781139411639
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: June 29, 2012
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

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 as diverse as 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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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 as diverse as 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.

More books from Cambridge University Press

Cover of the book Ecosystem Services by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Causality by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book The Cambridge Companion to the Lied by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Adaptation and Well-Being by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Gambling on War by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Making Early Medieval Societies by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Exclusion by Elections by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Global Warming by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book The Zebrafish by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book The Stationers' Company and the Printers of London, 1501–1557 by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Theory and Synthesis of Linear Passive Time-Invariant Networks by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book Security Relations between China and the European Union by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book The Archaeology of South Asia by Dr Elizabeth Leane
Cover of the book The Making of Polities by Dr Elizabeth Leane
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy