Mapping “the voyage North Pole-wards” and Imperial Rhetoric in R.M. Ballantyne’s The Giant of the North and William Gordon Stables’s Wild Adventures Round the Pole
This comparative analysis of R.M. Ballantyne's The Giant of the North and William Gordon Stables's Wild Adventures Round the Pole will demonstrate that, in the late 19th century, British polar adventure narratives elude conventional maps, and as the characters explore uncharted regions of...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:interfaces_10474 https://doi.org/10.4000/14to1 urn:doi:10.4000/14to1 en https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces/10474 2025-10-01T02:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/14to1 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Mapping “the voyage North Pole-wards” and Imperial Rhetoric in R.M. Ballantyne’s The Giant of the North and William Gordon Stables’s Wild Adventures Round the Pole Interfaces Université Bourgogne Europe info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2647-6754 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1164-6225 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/interfaces Pochelu, Juliette cartographie Arctique romans d’aventure Ballantyne (Robert Michael) impérialisme jeunesse Stables (William Gordon) ère victorienne cartography Arctic adventure fiction Ballantyne (Robert Michael) imperialism juvenile Stables (William Gordon) Victorian era This comparative analysis of R.M. Ballantyne's The Giant of the North and William Gordon Stables's Wild Adventures Round the Pole will demonstrate that, in the late 19th century, British polar adventure narratives elude conventional maps, and as the characters explore uncharted regions of the Arctic, the fictional texts themselves become literary maps leading to an imperial North Pole. This article examines the limits of Western cartography of the Arctic, which reveals several layers of cartographic uncertainty in the narratives. It then focuses on how the characters develop alternative and more dynamic mapping strategies reflecting the ever-changing icescape. Finally, this study shows that the success of the dash to the North Pole reveals the ambivalent colonial overtones of juvenile adventure fiction. This section includes an analysis of the illustrative map featured in Ballantyne's The Giant of the North and focuses on the Cette étude comparatiste de The Giant of the North de R.M. Ballantyne et de Wild Adventures Round the Pole de William Gordon Stables s'attache à démontrer qu’à la fin du XIXe siècle, les récits d'aventure polaire britanniques déjouent les cartes conventionnelles et deviennent eux-mêmes des cartes littéraires menant à un pôle Nord impérial. Cet article examine tout d'abord les limites de la cartographie traditionnelle, qui révèlent plusieurs couches d'incertitudes cartographiques dans les récits. Cette étude se concentre ensuite sur les stratégies de cartographie dynamiques et alternatives que développent les personnages, reflétant le paysage polaire en constante évolution. Enfin, elle démontre que le voyage triomphant vers le pôle Nord dévoile en filigrane le message colonial ambivalent de la littérature d'aventure de jeunesse. Cette partie comprend une analyse de la carte qui figure dans The Giant of the North de Ballantyne, et s'intéresse à la remise en question du pôle Nord en tant qu'objectif impérial. |
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This comparative analysis of R.M. Ballantyne's The Giant of the North and William Gordon Stables's Wild Adventures Round the Pole will demonstrate that, in the late 19th century, British polar adventure narratives elude conventional maps, and as the characters explore uncharted regions of the Arctic, the fictional texts themselves become literary maps leading to an imperial North Pole. This article examines the limits of Western cartography of the Arctic, which reveals several layers of cartographic uncertainty in the narratives. It then focuses on how the characters develop alternative and more dynamic mapping strategies reflecting the ever-changing icescape. Finally, this study shows that the success of the dash to the North Pole reveals the ambivalent colonial overtones of juvenile adventure fiction. This section includes an analysis of the illustrative map featured in Ballantyne's The Giant of the North and focuses on the |
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Mapping “the voyage North Pole-wards” and Imperial Rhetoric in R.M. Ballantyne’s The Giant of the North and William Gordon Stables’s Wild Adventures Round the Pole |
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Mapping “the voyage North Pole-wards” and Imperial Rhetoric in R.M. Ballantyne’s The Giant of the North and William Gordon Stables’s Wild Adventures Round the Pole |
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