Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and CultureThis 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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She is currently working on fiction by women in the early 20th century. ULRICH KlNZEL is Associate Professor for German Literature at the University of Hamburg. His publications include Zweideutigkeit als System (1988), ...
She is currently working on fiction by women in the early 20th century. ULRICH KlNZEL is Associate Professor for German Literature at the University of Hamburg. His publications include Zweideutigkeit als System (1988), ...
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Her thesis, entitled The Sign of the Breaker: Shipwreck, Sea and Language in (Post)modernity, explores radical inscriptions of sea metaphors in literary and film texts of the 20th century, in particular women's writing.
Her thesis, entitled The Sign of the Breaker: Shipwreck, Sea and Language in (Post)modernity, explores radical inscriptions of sea metaphors in literary and film texts of the 20th century, in particular women's writing.
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His articles have appeared in such publications as Nineteenth Century Contexts and Wordsworth Circle, and he contributed several entries to the Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and the Great Lakes.
His articles have appeared in such publications as Nineteenth Century Contexts and Wordsworth Circle, and he contributed several entries to the Encyclopedia of American Literature of the Sea and the Great Lakes.
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By permission of the British Library Anon., Bestiarium (12th century). BOD MS Ashmole 1511, fol. 86v. By permission of the Bodleian Library Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius and Joannes Janssonius, Atlas or a geographicke description of ...
By permission of the British Library Anon., Bestiarium (12th century). BOD MS Ashmole 1511, fol. 86v. By permission of the Bodleian Library Gerard Mercator, Jodocus Hondius and Joannes Janssonius, Atlas or a geographicke description of ...
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BERNHARD KLEIN In Barry Unsworth's recent novel Losing Nelson (1999), the radiant British naval commander whose victory at Trafalgar 'gave [Britain] supremacy at sea into the twentieth century',1 is a figure of unrivalled heroic ...
BERNHARD KLEIN In Barry Unsworth's recent novel Losing Nelson (1999), the radiant British naval commander whose victory at Trafalgar 'gave [Britain] supremacy at sea into the twentieth century',1 is a figure of unrivalled heroic ...
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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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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture |
| Redacteur | Bernhard Klein |
| Uitgever | Routledge, 2017 |
| ISBN | 1351936557, 9781351936552 |
| Lengte | 256 pagina's |
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