The Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction (Rou, Leavenworth, Leavenworth,..

The Imagined Arctic in Speculative FictionAuthor(s): Maria Lindgren Leavenworth\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032409689, 978-1032409689\nSynopsis\nThe Imagined Arctic in Speculative Fiction explores the ways in which the Arctic is imagined and what function it is made to serve in a selection of speculative fictions: non-mimetic works that start from the implied question \""What if?\"" Spanning slightly more than two centuries of speculative fiction, from the starting point in Mary Shelleys 1818 Frankenstein to contemporary works that engage with the vast ramifications of anthropogenic climate change, analyses demonstrate how Arctic discourses are supported or subverted and how new Arctics are added to the textual tradition. To illuminate wider lines of inquiry informing the way the world is envisioned, humanitys place and function in it, and more-than-human entanglements, analyses focus on the function of the a.