Situating ‘Books of Travel’: Intertextuality in Antarctic Whaling Narratives 1892-1896
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This dissertation shows the potential of approaching Antarctic expedition narratives as historical, as well as literary, sources. Research on the Arctic, and the second half of the twentieth century in Antarctica, has illuminated the importance of communities and individuals to the knowledge produced about these regions. The narratives analysed in this dissertation were implicated in and contributed to the function of expeditionary social networks in the late nineteenth century. Understanding the complexity and nuance of past Antarctic narratives is vital to analysing contemporary imaginaries and stories of the Antarctic continent.