Sexual Polarities: Shelley’s Frankenstein and Polar Exploration as a Search for Origins Beyond ‘woman’

This paper is about our parents and our predecessors in life and in literature. It specifically interrogates the choice of Polar landscapes for the playing out of narratives of gender difference in stories of Arctic and Antarctic exploration. I have chosen to pay attention to three narratives: Shack...

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Main Author: Polly Gould
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2008-02-01
Series:Nordlit: Tidsskrift i litteratur og kultur
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Online Access:https://septentrio.uit.no/index.php/nordlit/article/view/1189