ARCTIC SPECTACLES:
THE FROZEN NORTH IN VISUAL CULTURE
1818-1875
Russell
A. Potter
Introduction:
Visuality and the Arctic Regions
I
A
Foretaste of those Icy Climes:
Britain's
Arctic Circles
Producing a perfect map of the Ice: Henry Aston Barker's Panorama
of1820
(this is the one seen and praised by Keats); Mόnchausen on
Ice:
The Mythic mis-taking of Sir John Ross
II
The
Awful Aspect of the Scene:
Arctic
Panoramas and the Northern Sublime
The Sea of Ice (Friedrich's Das Eismeer) Ross's Return and the
Panorama
of Boothia
III
The
Killing Glitter of the stars:
Spectacles
of the Search for Franklin
The desolate sublimity of this
Astounding Spectacle: Dickens and
the
Panoramic Urge That Far-distant and Mysterious Region: The
Arctic
in Moving Panoramas News, Rumor,
and Speculation A
Leisure
Hour in the Arctic Regions: The Arctic in the Illustrated
Press
The contents of the Kettles
IV
Things
Dimly Shadowed Forth:
Picturing
the Last Dread Alternative
Whom Earth Denies a Grave: The Ends of Science The eventful
voyage
of HMS Resolute
V
The
Arctic Panoramas of Elisha Kent Kane
In Memoriam Elisha Kent Kane The
Heart of the Western
Wilderness:
Kane Panoramas on Tour, 1857-63
Kane Marches On:
Panoramas,
Stereoviews, and Lantern Shows
VI
Testing
the Region of the Ice-Bound Soul
Lost i' the land of Ice and Snow: Visions of the
Fate
of Franklin The Crying of Two Thousand People: The
Frozen
Deep in Manchester.
VII
A
Late and Sad Discovery: Death and the Arctic
Sublime
The Voyage of the Fox in Arctic Seas
Bones -- no need to ask
whose
Man Proposes, God Disposes
VIII
Curiosities
of Unusual Interest:
The
Arctic Shows of Charles Francis Hall
IX
A
Most Weird and Beautiful Picture:
Church's
Visions of the Arctic
Regions
X
The
photographic Artist:
William
Bradford and the Close of the
Panoramic
Era
Epilogue:
New Media, New Horizons
Appendix:
Arctic
Shows and Entertainments, 1819-1896
(an
Annotated List)