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From Follett
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Guelph.;Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-225) and index.;Introduction: Jane Franklin's dress: archives and affect -- Disciplining nostalgia in the Navy; or, Harlequin in the arctic -- "The sly fox": reading indigenous presence -- Going native: "playing Inuit", "becoming savage", and acting out Franklin -- Aglooka's ghost: performing embodied memory -- The last resource: witnessing the cannibal scene -- The designated mourner: Charles Dickens stands in for Franklin -- Conclusion: Franklin remains.;Print version record. Argues that performance is a crucial way of understanding the affective intercultural impact of the disappearance of John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition in 1845.
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In 1845, John Franklin's Northwest Passage expedition disappeared. The expedition left an archive of performative remains that entice one to consider the tension between material remains and memory and reflect on how substitution and surrogation work alongside mourning and melancholia as responses to loss.