1st Edition
The Poetics of the Antarctic A Study in Nineteenth-Century American Cultural Perceptions
By William E. Lenz
Copyright 1995
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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The thesis of this book is that the 19th-century interest in the Antarctic functions for modern scholars as an important index to American self-discovery and self-definition from the 1830s onward. According to the author, American hopes for confirming identity came to be focused on an unlikely goal, the discovery of the illusive Antarctic continent. By examining in detail one literary product of... Read more
Chapter 1: Antarctic Exploration and American Nationalism Chapter 2: The Tradition of American Sea Fiction and the Antarctic Chapter 3: The Poetics of the Antarctic: James Croxall Palmer's Thulia: A Tale of the Antarctic (1843) Chapter 4: The Fictive Imagination and the Antarctic Chapter 5: Antarctic Redux: Palmer's Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868), Conclusion, Appendix: Text of Antarctic Mariner's Song (1868)
Biography
William E. Lenz (Author)
