Status
Available
Publication
British Library Publishing (2023), 352 pages
Description
Fired up by the accounts of exploring parties in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers of the weird and supernatural began to construct a literary Arctic and Antarctic in which terrors lay undiscovered in the ice and gateways to bizarre hidden worlds were waiting. From James Hogg's lurid North Pole narrative of life amongst polar bears in 'The Surpassing Adventures of Allan Gordon' to tales of mad science and ghostly visitations among the wind-blown expanse of the southern continent, this collection showcases a wealth of neglected material and an overlooked niche of literature obsessed with the limits of human experience.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
352 p.; 7.5 inches
ISBN
0712354425 / 9780712354424
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