Elizabeth Chant
Biographic Data
| ID | 299006 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Chant |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Chant |
| SIGNATURE | CHANT E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London London United Kingdom |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5407-9418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
From perdition to paradise
As British interest in establishing an outpost in the South Pacific grew throughout the late seventeenth century, navigators and speculators alike sought a solution to the terrifying, costly, and often fatal challenge of traversing Patagonia. This article traces the emergence of the Juan Fernández Islands as an environmental antidote to the trials of Patagonian navigation. An uninhabited, temperate archipelago that abounded with edible flora and …
Reading Fuegian Narratives and Nonhuman Sensibility in Francisco Coloane's Patagonian Tales
One of the first Chilean authors to write extensively about Patagonia, Francisco Coloane has long been revered for his tales of life in the region. In Coloane's literature, murderous deluges sweep away entire homesteads and pinnipeds smother sealers to death, events that have often been interpreted as symptomatic of Patagonia's inhospitable climate and the difficulties settlers faced in the region. This article proposes a reading of Coloane's wor…
Art and Politics across the Atlantic
Comprised of eight charts and eight views that map the coastline of the Americas from Ecuador to Brazil, the Atlas maritimo del Reyno de el Perù, Chile, Costa Patagónica Oriental, y Occidental is an exquisite example of eighteenth-century Spanish American manuscript cartography whose production and content contribute to understanding imperial expansion and artistic exchange in the Atlantic World. Commissioned by a pilot of the Indies fleet and pr…
Reimagining the Juan Fernández Islands
This article examines the arrival of cruise ship tourism to the Juan Fernández Islands (Chile) in the first half of the 20th century, considering how this particular form of tourism reconfigured the economic and cultural image of the islands. Bringing together domestic and international advertising and voyage accounts, we assess how the Juan Fernández Islands were incorporated into both Chilean and foreign tourist discourses as an idealised parad…
Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination, edited by Jana Byars and Hans Peter Broedel
Reimagining the Juan Fernández Islands
This article examines the arrival of cruise ship tourism to the Juan Fernández Islands (Chile) in the first half of the 20th century, considering how this particular form of tourism reconfigured the economic and cultural image of the islands. Bringing together domestic and international advertising and voyage accounts, we assess how the Juan Fernández Islands were incorporated into both Chilean and foreign tourist discourses as an idealised parad…
Monsters and Borders in the Early Modern Imagination, edited by Jana Byars and Hans Peter Broedel
Art and Politics across the Atlantic
Comprised of eight charts and eight views that map the coastline of the Americas from Ecuador to Brazil, the Atlas maritimo del Reyno de el Perù, Chile, Costa Patagónica Oriental, y Occidental is an exquisite example of eighteenth-century Spanish American manuscript cartography whose production and content contribute to understanding imperial expansion and artistic exchange in the Atlantic World. Commissioned by a pilot of the Indies fleet and pr…
Reimagining the Juan Fernández Islands
This article examines the arrival of cruise ship tourism to the Juan Fernández Islands (Chile) in the first half of the 20th century, considering how this particular form of tourism reconfigured the economic and cultural image of the islands. Bringing together domestic and international advertising and voyage accounts, we assess how the Juan Fernández Islands were incorporated into both Chilean and foreign tourist discourses as an idealised parad…
Reading Fuegian Narratives and Nonhuman Sensibility in Francisco Coloane's Patagonian Tales
One of the first Chilean authors to write extensively about Patagonia, Francisco Coloane has long been revered for his tales of life in the region. In Coloane's literature, murderous deluges sweep away entire homesteads and pinnipeds smother sealers to death, events that have often been interpreted as symptomatic of Patagonia's inhospitable climate and the difficulties settlers faced in the region. This article proposes a reading of Coloane's wor…
From perdition to paradise
As British interest in establishing an outpost in the South Pacific grew throughout the late seventeenth century, navigators and speculators alike sought a solution to the terrifying, costly, and often fatal challenge of traversing Patagonia. This article traces the emergence of the Juan Fernández Islands as an environmental antidote to the trials of Patagonian navigation. An uninhabited, temperate archipelago that abounded with edible flora and …
Art (3 works) · History (3 works) · Cultural and Social Studies in Latin America (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American history and culture (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Archaeology (1 works)