Jen Hill is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada at Reno and editor of An Exhilaration of Wings: The Literature of Birdwatching.

Acknowledgments

1. Heart of Whiteness

2. National Bodies: Robert Southey's Life of Nelson and John Franklin's Voyage to the Polar Sea

3. A Propitious Hard Frost:The Arctic of Mary Shelley and Eleanor Anne Porden

4. A Pale Blank of Mist and Cloud: Arctic Spaces in Jane Eyre

5. Arctic Highlanders and Englishmen: Dickens, Cannibalism, and Sensation

6. Ends of the Earth, Ends of the Empire: R. M. Ballantyne's Arctic Adventures

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