Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and CultureBernhard Klein Ashgate, 2002 - 237 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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... Homeric sea figure as the major vehicle of their projects . To be sure , neither Gladstone nor Froude were active in the seafaring professions . Unlike , say , Melville or Conrad , they were Oxford men and scholars , who seem to have ...
... Homeric sea figure as the major vehicle of their projects . To be sure , neither Gladstone nor Froude were active in the seafaring professions . Unlike , say , Melville or Conrad , they were Oxford men and scholars , who seem to have ...
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... Homeric world , I contend , should therefore be seen in close connection to the con- current political project to define and shape a spatial order for the imperial world at large . For Gladstone , the world of Homer rather than of Roman ...
... Homeric world , I contend , should therefore be seen in close connection to the con- current political project to define and shape a spatial order for the imperial world at large . For Gladstone , the world of Homer rather than of Roman ...
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... Homeric map as guide through the contemporary world . The imagery of the first sentence ( ' out of a palace of enchantments into the cold grey light ' ) strongly reflects the more desperate sense of disenchantment which I suggested ...
... Homeric map as guide through the contemporary world . The imagery of the first sentence ( ' out of a palace of enchantments into the cold grey light ' ) strongly reflects the more desperate sense of disenchantment which I suggested ...
Inhoudsopgave
Who Owns the Sea? | 13 |
Orientation as a Paradigm of Maritime Modernity | 28 |
Satans Ocean Voyage and 18thCentury Seafaring | 49 |
Copyright | |
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