Saturday, November 30, 2013

The Franklin Expedition in Popular Culture

Fanfiction
Fiction
1. Across Frozen Seas - John Wilson (YA)
2. North with Franklin - John Wilson (novel)
3. Lament The Night - Kassandra Alvarado (short fiction)
4. Solomon Gursky was Here - Mordecai Richler (novel)
5. The Discovery of Slowness - Sten Nadolny (novel)
6. Arctic Drift - Clive Cussler (novel)
7. On the Proper use of Stars - Dominique Fortier (novel)
8. Wanting - Richard Flanagan (novel)
9. Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras - Jules Verne
10. The White Passage - Kassandra Alvarado (novel)
11. The Rifles - William T. Vollman (novel)
12. The Ice Child - Elizabeth McGregor (novel)
13. The Terror - Dan Simmons
14. Time and Tide - Alexandra Crane (short fiction) 
Fiction Mentions
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Inukshuk - Gregory Spatz
Late Nights on Air - Elizabeth Hay

Comic Books
Alpha Flight issues .36 to ?
Comic Strips
Hark! A Vagrant - Kate Beaton = http://www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id=24
Sir John Franklin Lost in the Arctic! (1940s newspaper)
Poetic Treatment
1. Lady Franklin’s Man - Sheenagh Pugh
2. Envying Owen Beattie - Sheenagh Pugh
3. Franklin’s Passage - David Solway
4. The Death of Sir John Franklin - Algernon Charles Swinburne
5. FOR JOHN TORRINGTON RESURRECTED FROM THE ICE - Jennifer Footman

Plays
The Frozen Deep - Wilkie Collins
Francis and Sophy a Polar Romance (indie)
Music
Northwest Passage - Stan Rogers
Franklin’s Letters - Tom Hooper (rare)
Lady Franklin’s Lament (sometimes known as Lord Franklin) - covered by multiple artists
I’m already there - Fairport Convention
Frozen Man - James Taylor
Radio
Arctic Rescue - Escape = http://www.escape-suspense.com/2012/12/suspense-arctic-rescue.html
Erebus and Terror - CBC Radio (no link available)
Franklin Expedition Rewind - CBC = http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/Rewind/2012/ID/2277575168/
Games