“Per si muove—it was a mass of moonstone”: Fluidity, Dynamic Relations, and the Commodification of Storytelling in Harriet Prescott Spofford’s Arctic Writings

The essay examines Harriet Prescott Spofford’s short story “The Moonstone Mass” (1868) through the lens of fluidity foregrounded by her Arctic poem “The Story of the Iceberg” (1897). Rendering a network of actors (human and other), who are connected and continuously influence one another, “The Moons...

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Main Author: Verena Laschinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: European Association for American Studies 2019-10-01
Series:European Journal of American Studies
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/15225
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