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.

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"Davis-Fisch's book is . . . the most original and engaging work on the cultural impact of the mid-century Franklin fascination yet to appear - and, it's to be hoped, a harbinger of further such studies of the larger dramas of exploration as such, in all the regions of the world that the 'West' thought of as distant." - The Arctic Book Review

"The argument of Heather Davis-Fisch's book - that we might trace the 'remains' of a cultural event through performance in order both to evoke its circumstances and to argue for a relationship between performance and history, as well as performance and 'loss' more generally - is important, compelling, and interesting. Davis-Fisch makes her points clearly and delivers interesting close readings informed by recent criticism and theory." - Jennifer Hill, Fitzgerald Distinguished Professor of the Humanities , University of Nevada, Reno

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Heather Davis-Fisch is an instructor in English and Theatre at the University of Fraser Valley, Canada

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Book Title: Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance
Book Subtitle: The Ghosts of the Franklin Expedition
Authors: Heather Davis-Fisch
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137065995
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Theatre & Performance Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-34032-9Published: 16 August 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-34290-7Published: 16 August 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-06599-5Published: 03 September 2012
Series ISSN: 2947-5767
Series E-ISSN: 2947-5775
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 234
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theatre History, Social History, Theatre and Performance Studies, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Performing Arts

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