Sable Seas: The Crimean War's Global Reach and 1850s Geopolitical Literariness
Journal: Victorian Studies
Year: 2021

Though the Crimean War's literary reverberations within Britain have been productively analyzed, the global response to the war, particularly in British-ruled settler colonies, still merits exploration. Starting from the anomaly of a frontier between British Columbia and Russian Alaska that remained neutral in global conflict, this essay looks first at reactions to the war by Anglo-Canadian and Québécois writers, and second at the metonymic role the Near East played in representations of the con