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Book SynopsisThis comprehensive and engaging analysis of a wide range of Antarctic fiction - from lost-race romances to espionage thrillers to travellers' tales to horror fantasies - is essential reading for anyone interested in the history, literature and culture of Antarctica and the polar regions.
Trade Review'Encyclopedic in its scope, creative in its organization, and lucidly written, Antarctica in Fiction is a solid, lively, and at times surprising study that encompasses everything from Gothic and utopian treatments of the continent in fiction and film to the literature produced by Antarctic explorers and researchers themselves … [it] is a model of meticulous scholarship that should certainly be part of any university library's holdings.' Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts
Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Speculation visions of the south polar regions; 2. Bodies, boundaries and the Antarctic gothic; 3. Creative explorations of the heroic era; 4. The survival value of literature at high latitudes; 5. The transforming nature of Antarctic travel; 6. Freezing time in far southern narratives; Coda.
