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.

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

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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