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Francesca Broadhead
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Research Summary
In my thesis, ''Life is truly hard for these poor creatures.' Representations of Animals in Polar Literature,' I intend to explore attitudes and treatment of animals in polar exploration literature… read more
Current Research
In my thesis, ''Life is truly hard for these poor creatures.' Representations of Animals in Polar Literature,' I intend to explore attitudes and treatment of animals in polar exploration literature across British, Inuit, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish and North and South America history.
Key Themes I will cover include:
History of Animal Rights
Antarctica
- British exploration: Captain Scott and Shackleton journals
- Amundsen
- Attitude to and treatment of animals (labouring animals and indigenous animals)
- Anthropomorphism and Scott's literature
- Human-animal hierarchy on expeditions
- Precarious power balance/ fear of chaos/ breakdown of order, also represented in fictional Antarctic literature
Imperialism and Arctic
- Science and masculinity
- History of Northwest Passage
- Franklin: botany as imperialistic symbol
- Animals as imperialistic symbols: collecting of species for scientific display/taxidermy
- Hunting: whales/walrus/seals/polar bears
- Hunting for 'sport'
- Henson (Afro-American perspective)
Inuit
- Oral history and language
- Attitude to animals
- Hunting
- Using animals as clothing
- Literature
- Mythology
- Interaction with earlier Tuniit peoples
- Interaction with Vikings (Skraelings)
Scandinavian Exploration
- Vikings reach Arctic Circle
- Arctic witch trials: Sami drums animal imagery and mythology, Sami reindeer culture
- North Pole:
Astrup; interaction with Inuit, use of carrier pigeons and reindeer and dogs
Andr茅e's balloon attempt on North Pole: use of carrier pigeons. Hunting for polar bear
Amundsen/ Nansen/ Larsen/ Borchgrevink
- Nordenski枚ld: pioneer of environmental conservation
Women and Polar Exploration
- Josephine Peary
- Kathleen Scott
- Lady Franklin
- Emily Shackleton
- Inuit: sewing animal skins/ women prepare and cook meat
- Animals as consumer items: fur coats/clothing accessories
- Attitude to hunting
- Le Guin's Sur (South American perspective)
Key Figures:
- Robert Falcon Scott
- Roald Amundsen
- Ernest Shackleton
- Mathew Henson
- Josephine Peary
- Eivind Astrup
- Adolf Erik Nordenski枚ld
- Salomon August Andr茅e
- Fridtjof Nansen
- John Franklin