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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... early modern literature . Her book on the staging of slander and gender in early modern England is forthcoming . She is currently working on fiction by women in the early 20th century . ULRICH KINZEL is Associate Professor for German ...
... early modern literature . Her book on the staging of slander and gender in early modern England is forthcoming . She is currently working on fiction by women in the early 20th century . ULRICH KINZEL is Associate Professor for German ...
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... early modern voyages of discovery and long - distance trading and just possibly might also allude to the early modern slave trade and its oceanic routes . The metaphorical level of seafaring is sustained even after Satan has invaded ...
... early modern voyages of discovery and long - distance trading and just possibly might also allude to the early modern slave trade and its oceanic routes . The metaphorical level of seafaring is sustained even after Satan has invaded ...
Pagina 99
... early 18th - century colonial relationship between Scot- land and the islands parallels the early 19th - century colonial relationship between Great Britain and Scotland . If republicanism offers no means for the equitable distribution ...
... early 18th - century colonial relationship between Scot- land and the islands parallels the early 19th - century colonial relationship between Great Britain and Scotland . If republicanism offers no means for the equitable distribution ...
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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Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British ... Bernhard Klein Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2017 |
Fictions of the Sea: Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British ... Bernhard Klein Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2016 |
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