Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and CultureBernhard Klein Routledge, 2 mrt 2017 - 256 pagina's This timely collection brings together twelve original essays on the cultural meaning of the sea in British literature and history, from early modern times to the present. Interdisciplinary in conception, it charts metaphorical and material links between the idea of the sea in the cultural imagination and its significance for the social and political history of Britain, offering a fresh analysis of the impact of the ocean on the formation of British cultural identities. Among the cultural and literary artifacts considered are early modern legal treatises on marine boundaries, Renaissance and Romantic poetry, 19th- and 20th-century novels, popular sea songs, recent Hollywood films, as well as a diverse range of historical and critical writings. Writers discussed include Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Scott, Conrad, du Maurier, Unsworth, O'Brian, and others. All these cultural and literary 'fictions of the sea' are set in relation to wider issues relevant to maritime history and the historical experience of seafaring: problems of navigation and orientation, piracy, empire, colonialism, slavery, multi-ethnic shipboard communities, masculinity, gender relations. By combining the interests of three related but distinct areas of study-the analysis of sea fiction, critical maritime history, and cultural studies-in a focus upon the historical meaning of the sea in relation to its textual and cultural representation, Fictions of the Sea offers an original contribution to the practice of existing disciplines. |
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... pirates and Catholics, and thereby opened up the searoutes across which English migrants would travel, and English trade would flow, until Britannia majestically ruled the waves.'9 Nelson is perhaps the most shining star that ever rose ...
... pirates and Catholics, and thereby opened up the searoutes across which English migrants would travel, and English trade would flow, until Britannia majestically ruled the waves.'9 Nelson is perhaps the most shining star that ever rose ...
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... piracy, slavery, multiethnic shipboard communities, masculinity, gender relations. The book covers the period from early modern times to the present, and literature offers perhaps the best yardstick to assess the changing cultural ...
... piracy, slavery, multiethnic shipboard communities, masculinity, gender relations. The book covers the period from early modern times to the present, and literature offers perhaps the best yardstick to assess the changing cultural ...
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... Pirate (1821) as a text deeply implicated in the colonial imagination of its historical moment. The novel opens on the Shetland and Orkney Islands, at the time colonies of the Scottish mainland, where Scott's characters engage in piracy ...
... Pirate (1821) as a text deeply implicated in the colonial imagination of its historical moment. The novel opens on the Shetland and Orkney Islands, at the time colonies of the Scottish mainland, where Scott's characters engage in piracy ...
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... Pirates, and the AngloAmerican Maritime World, 17001750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). See also Rediker's more recent book, jointly written with Peter Linebaugh, The ManyHeaded Hydra. Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the ...
... Pirates, and the AngloAmerican Maritime World, 17001750 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987). See also Rediker's more recent book, jointly written with Peter Linebaugh, The ManyHeaded Hydra. Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the ...
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... pirates. When, for example, the Romans scoured the Mediterranean to eliminate piracy and stationed fleets there to police the sea, they were in effect claiming jurisdiction over the mare nostrum.1 During the Middle Ages, several ...
... pirates. When, for example, the Romans scoured the Mediterranean to eliminate piracy and stationed fleets there to police the sea, they were in effect claiming jurisdiction over the mare nostrum.1 During the Middle Ages, several ...
Inhoudsopgave
Orientation as a Paradigm of Maritime Modernity | |
Satans Ocean Voyage and 18thCentury Seafaring Trade | |
The Politics of Ships as Social | |
Walter Scotts Imperialism Nationalism and Bourgeois Values | |
The Theory and Practice of Shipwrecking | |
Historicizing the Homeric Sea in Victorian | |
Fictions of | |
Conrads Crews Revisited | |
Heroic Masculinity in English | |
Middle Passage Narratives | |
Metaphors of Crossing and Shipwreck | |
Select Bibliography | |
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Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British ... Bernhard Klein Fragmentweergave - 2002 |
Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British ... Bernhard Klein Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
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