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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... Atlantic context, and the tension between statistical data and accounts of individual experience) have influenced, and been in turn influenced by, the literary imagination. In the final contribution which moves beyond the national ...
... Atlantic context, and the tension between statistical data and accounts of individual experience) have influenced, and been in turn influenced by, the literary imagination. In the final contribution which moves beyond the national ...
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... Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000); and several recent crossdisciplinary collections on maritime history: Colin Howell and Richard Twomey (eds), Jack Tar in History. Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour (Fredricton, New ...
... Atlantic (Boston: Beacon Press, 2000); and several recent crossdisciplinary collections on maritime history: Colin Howell and Richard Twomey (eds), Jack Tar in History. Essays in the History of Maritime Life and Labour (Fredricton, New ...
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... Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was open to all who wished to sail there, mare liberum, or closed, mare clausum, that is, whether navigation and trade could be limited to a specific country or countries. Furthermore, debate about ownership ...
... Atlantic and Pacific oceans, was open to all who wished to sail there, mare liberum, or closed, mare clausum, that is, whether navigation and trade could be limited to a specific country or countries. Furthermore, debate about ownership ...
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... Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. Europeans now found themselves dealing on a large scale beyond Europe with issues with which they had previously dealt on a small scale within Europe. Thus, the early modern debate about the ...
... Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian oceans. Europeans now found themselves dealing on a large scale beyond Europe with issues with which they had previously dealt on a small scale within Europe. Thus, the early modern debate about the ...
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... Atlantic was a British 'mare nostrum'. This would seem to suggest that the English were claiming the kind of jurisdiction over the sea that the Spanish and the Portuguese were claiming. The difference was, however, that while the ...
... Atlantic was a British 'mare nostrum'. This would seem to suggest that the English were claiming the kind of jurisdiction over the sea that the Spanish and the Portuguese were claiming. The difference was, however, that while the ...
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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