White horizon : the Arctic in the nineteenth-century British imagination /
Hill, Jen.
Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press,
c2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-230) and index.
1. Heart of whiteness -- 2. National bodies : Robert Southey's 'Life of Nelson' and John Franklin's 'Narrative of a journey to the shores of the polar sea' -- 3. A propitious hard frost : the Arctic of Mary Shelley and Eleanor Anne Porden -- 4. A pale blank of mist and cloud : Arctic spaces in 'Jane Eyre' -- 5. Arctic highlanders and Englishmen : Dickens, cannibalism, and sensation -- 6. Ends of the earth, ends of the empire : R.M. Ballantyne's Arctic adventures.
English fiction
Geography in literature.
Explorers in literature.
Adventure and adventurers in literature.
Imperialism in literature.