Antarctica in Fiction: Imaginative Narratives of the Far South

by Elizabeth Leane

Book Overview

This comprehensive analysis of literary responses to Antarctica examines the rich body of literature that the continent has provoked over the last three centuries, focussing particularly on narrative fiction. Novelists as diverse as Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula Le Guin, Beryl Bainbridge and Kim Stanley Robinson have all been drawn artistically to the far south. The continent has also inspired genre fiction,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107507715
• ISBN13: 9781107507715
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"