Elisha Kent Kane, Restrained Victorian Man

This podcast was created for ANES 650: Top of the World by Camille M. Smalley. This podcast is Camille Smalley's interpretation of the sketches of Elisha Kent Kane's Second Grinnell Expedition of 1853, as they reflect, in her opinion, the continuum of masculinity in the early Victorian Period. Bibliography: Primary Sources: Assistant Surgeon Elisha Kent Kane, USN (1820-1857) Thomas Hicks, 1823-1890 oil on canvas Naval Historical Center The Music Lesson, 1870 John George Brown, 1831-1913) oil on canvas Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection The Soaplocks, or Bowery Boys, 1847 watercolor on paper Center for History and New Media Arctic Region Exploration, 1850-1906 George Edwin Rines, 1911 United Editors, New York University of South Florida Collection Advance Near Kosoak, 1855 Elisha Kent Kane, 1820-1857 pencil on paper National Maritime Museum Collection The Advance Frozen in Ice at Renesselaer Harbor, 1856 Elisha Kent Kane, 1820-1857 pencil on paper Linda Hall Library Collection Kane’s Dogs Confront a Polar Bear, 1856 Elisha Kent Kane, 1820-1857 pencil on paper Linda Hall Library Collection Kane’s Funeral March, 1859 William H. Shuster printed American Philosophical Society Digital Collection Secondary Sources: Anthony, David. Paper Money Men: Commerce, Manhood, and the Sensational Public Sphere in Antebellum America. Columbus: The Ohio State Press, 2009. Chapin, David. Exploring Other Worlds: Margaret Fox, Elisha Kent Kane, and the Antebellum Culture of Curiosity. Boston: University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. Greenberg, Amy S. Manifest Manhood and the Antebellum American Empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Potter, Russell A. Arctic Spectacles. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2007. Robinson, Michael F.The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Thomson, Shawn. The Fortress of American Solitude: Robinson Crusoe and Antebellum Culture. Madison: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2009.