Apparently there's an academic journal devoted to Gothic Studies. Apparently in November of 2017 they published an issue dedicated to Nautical Gothic. Nautical Gothic. nAUticAl gOTHic. NAAAAUUUTICAL GOOOOTHIC
I am going to get my inexplicably perpetually cold little hands on the articles in that issue by whatever means necessary.
I mean look at this table of contents:
I've already gotten hold of the Roberson, Bowers and Constantini articles. If anyone knows where I can find any of the others please let me know.
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"The play limits its depiction of homosociability, representing only the ideal world in which men were bonded to one another by respect for authority and a common purpose. Extremes of homosociability -mutiny or sodomy, for example - are outside the representational and expressive economies of the play. This was arguably prescriptive: by staging only one model of homosocial relations, the play excludes “dysfunctional” relations from shipboard life."
Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition. Heather Davis-Fisch. 2012.
(The play in question was named 'Zero, or Harlequin Light' and was performed in 1851 aboard HMS Assistance, one of the earliest searchers for the Franklin Expedition. It was written by the ship's assistant surgeon, Charles Ede.)
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he was the what
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Some Ice terms definitions to be used as reference, Courtesy of one Sir John Ross (1777-1856)
Extract of the Narratives of his second voyage
Never thought the sky actually looked different if land was around or water :o
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crozier: i'm going to ask for tea. want some?
jcr: no, thank you, i'm busy.
also jcr the same second francis got his tea:
and here's the photo from pinterest this was based on – i just saw it randomly and was like ah yeaaah THEM.
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obsessed with this automatic translation on an ebay ad for a terror commemorative coin that calls it a terrorist ship. yes it is. hms emotional terrorism
~RARE! 50 pennies 2021 terrorist ship british antarctica HMS~
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thank you goodsir
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Happiest of birthdays to Anne, lady Ross, née Coulman 😌💖 (1817-1857)
And happy anniversary of the Ross Antarctic Expedition naming a cape after her:
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Important information from I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination (a very serious and scholarly book about the cultural impact of polar exploration in the United Kingdom in the 19th Century)
Citing Eric Partridge's DIctionary of Slang:
"North Pole" = arsehole in rhyming slang around 1870.
That is all.
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In other news, I went to Dundee - my home for four years and site of my undergrad escapades - and took some rubbish pictures of RRS Discovery (which I completely failed to appreciate the significance of when I lived right by it all those years ago!).
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Terror and Erebus by Gwendolyn MacEwen
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Of course the wildman portrait of Sir James Ross, the pinup of polar exploration, is a gift to us Cold Boys girlies but I need to speak up. I simply must.
Sir James Clark Ross C.1847-1848 is - and I will die on this hill - actually prime JCR.
Thank you for coming to my TEDtalk.
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ohan practice / doodles in the margins of my schoolwork + some chimp studies i did because thats the animal i used as a jumping off point for his design ^^
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love is... making observations and keeping the log together <3
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