Loss and Cultural Remains in Performance

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

"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

• 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