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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... ship.30 These shifts of focus and emphasis in maritime history have all influenced shape and content of the present volume. Although it is principally concerned with literature, it is decidedly interdisciplinary in approach and method ...
... ship.30 These shifts of focus and emphasis in maritime history have all influenced shape and content of the present volume. Although it is principally concerned with literature, it is decidedly interdisciplinary in approach and method ...
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... ship transgressing the ancient limits of the world and to the moral economy of the self faced with new forms of ... ships in the South Seas and to the influence of early modern voyage narratives on the Rime, specifically of John Davis ...
... ship transgressing the ancient limits of the world and to the moral economy of the self faced with new forms of ... ships in the South Seas and to the influence of early modern voyage narratives on the Rime, specifically of John Davis ...
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... ship that Conrad incorporates in his novels and tales. In fact, his ironic comments on the forms of crosscultural contact and the reality of xenophobic nationalism he experienced in his own life and career remain unnoticed when mere ...
... ship that Conrad incorporates in his novels and tales. In fact, his ironic comments on the forms of crosscultural contact and the reality of xenophobic nationalism he experienced in his own life and career remain unnoticed when mere ...
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... ship as the principal means of longdistance transport. Our language, however, still bears many traces of an earlier age: we catch our planes at the airport, we log on to a computer, we navigate the web. More importantly, over half a ...
... ship as the principal means of longdistance transport. Our language, however, still bears many traces of an earlier age: we catch our planes at the airport, we log on to a computer, we navigate the web. More importantly, over half a ...
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... Ships (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997). See, for instance, recent work on seafaring women such as Suzanne Stark, Female Tars. Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail (London: Pimlico, 1998); and the essays on gender and seafaring in ...
... Ships (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997). See, for instance, recent work on seafaring women such as Suzanne Stark, Female Tars. Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail (London: Pimlico, 1998); and the essays on gender and seafaring in ...
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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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