CONTENTS

pp vii-viii

List of Contributors

pp ix-x

Introduction: Exploration and Sacrifice: The Cultural Logic of Arctic Discovery

pp 1-18

Part I - Hubris, Conflicts and Desires

1 - John Barrow's Darling Project (1816–46)

pp 19-36

2 - Eskimaux, Officers and Gentlemen: Sir John Ross in the Icy Fields of Credibility (1818–46)

pp 37-60

3 - ‘In the Company of Strangers’: Shedding Light on Robert McClure's Claim of Discovery (1850–7)

pp 61-78

Part II - Sir John Franklin: Heroism, Myth, Gender

4 - Miss Porden, Mrs Franklin and the Arctic Expeditions: Eleanor Anne Porden and the Construction of Arctic Heroism (1818–25)

pp 79-94

5 - Arctic Romance under a Cloud: Franklin's Second Expedition by Land (1825–7)

pp 95-114

6 - Unremitting Exertions: Sentiment and Responsibility in Jane Franklin's Correspondence (1854)

pp 115-136

Part III - The Northwest Passage in Nineteenth-Century Culture

7 - Discovery as Cheerful Endurance: William Edward Parry's Quest (1819–25)

pp 137-154

8 - ‘Is This the End?’: Swinburne's Paradoxical Tribute to Sir John Franklin (1860)

pp 155-170

9 - A Certain ‘Want of Arch-Inscape’? The Critical Reception of Millais's North-West Passage (1874)

pp 171-184

Notes

pp 185-216

Index

pp 217-223