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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... Naval art and science in literature. 6. Seafaring in literature. 7. Sailors in literature. I. Klein, Bernhard, 1963– PR408.S43F53 2002 823.009'32162–dc21 2002022345 ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-0620-8 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-1-138-24665-2 (pbk) ...
... Naval art and science in literature. 6. Seafaring in literature. 7. Sailors in literature. I. Klein, Bernhard, 1963– PR408.S43F53 2002 823.009'32162–dc21 2002022345 ISBN 13: 978-0-7546-0620-8 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-1-138-24665-2 (pbk) ...
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... naval commander whose victory at Trafalgar 'gave [Britain] supremacy at sea into the twentieth century',1 is a figure of unrivalled heroic authority in the eyes of the novel's protagonist, the amateur historian Charles Cleasby ...
... naval commander whose victory at Trafalgar 'gave [Britain] supremacy at sea into the twentieth century',1 is a figure of unrivalled heroic authority in the eyes of the novel's protagonist, the amateur historian Charles Cleasby ...
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... naval heroes is a sign both of the deep historical affinity between Britain and the sea, and of the ocean's continuing power to evoke fantasies of national and moral supremacy. In the words of Cleasby's antagonist, the sea is indeed a ...
... naval heroes is a sign both of the deep historical affinity between Britain and the sea, and of the ocean's continuing power to evoke fantasies of national and moral supremacy. In the words of Cleasby's antagonist, the sea is indeed a ...
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... naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Such generalizations might be crying out for historical contexts but research on sea fiction is still too often conducted in narrowly conceived critical or generic frameworks.25 This criticism ...
... naval battles of the Napoleonic Wars. Such generalizations might be crying out for historical contexts but research on sea fiction is still too often conducted in narrowly conceived critical or generic frameworks.25 This criticism ...
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... naval achievements, celebrating the global flow of trade and the glory of empire. The realities of 18thcentury seafaring enter Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner in quite a different way, as Sarah Moss argues in her contribution ...
... naval achievements, celebrating the global flow of trade and the glory of empire. The realities of 18thcentury seafaring enter Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner in quite a different way, as Sarah Moss argues in her contribution ...
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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