Overview

This collection brings together 12 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. Writers considered include Shakespeare, Milton, Coleridge, Scott, Conrad, du Maurier, Unsworth, O'Brian, and others. These literary ""fictions of the sea"" are discussed in relation to paintings, shanties, films and 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. Addressing a wide range of historical, social and literary contexts, ""Fictions of the Sea"" offers a fresh analysis of the impact of the ocean on the formation of British cultural identities.

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Author:   Bernhard Klein
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   New edition
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780754606208

ISBN 10:   0754606201
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   07 August 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction: Britain and the sea, Bernhard Klein; Who owns the sea?, James Muldoon; Orientation as a paradigm of maritime modernity, Ulrich Kinzel; Satan's ocean voyage and 18th-century seafaring trade, Anne-Julia Zwierlein; Class war and the albatross: the politics of ships as social space and the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Sarah Moss; Walter Scott's The Pirate: Imperialism, nationalism and bourgeois values, Arnold Schmidt; Death by water: the theory and practice of shipwrecking, Ina Habermann; The sea is history: historicizing the Homeric sea in Victorian passages, Tobias Döring; 'As I wuz a-rolling down the highway one morn': fictions of the 19th-century English sailortown, Valerie Burton; Conrad's crews revisited, Jürgen Kramer; Cabin'd yet unconfined: heroic masculinity in English seafaring novels, Susan Bassnett; 'The sea is slavery': middle passage narratives, Carl Pedersen; Cinematographic seas: metaphors of crossing and shipwreck on the big screen (1990-2001), Patrizia A. Muscogiuri; Bibliography; Index.

Reviews

exceptionally well conceived ... the particular interdisciplinary range here - sea fiction, maritime history, cultural studies - is both genuinely original and exciting and yet at the same time recognisably associated with a recent tide of interest in the oceanic dimensions of cultural studies. Peter Hulme, Professor in Literature at the University of Essex

""exceptionally well conceived ... the particular interdisciplinary range here - sea fiction, maritime history, cultural studies - is both genuinely original and exciting and yet at the same time recognisably associated with a recent tide of interest in the oceanic dimensions of cultural studies."" Peter Hulme, Professor in Literature at the University of Essex

"""exceptionally well conceived ... the particular interdisciplinary range here - sea fiction, maritime history, cultural studies - is both genuinely original and exciting and yet at the same time recognisably associated with a recent tide of interest in the oceanic dimensions of cultural studies."" Peter Hulme, Professor in Literature at the University of Essex"

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Bernhard Klein, University of Dortmund, Germany Bernhard Klein, James Muldoon, Ulrich Kinzel, Anne-Julia Zwierlein, Sarah Moss, Arnold Schmidt, Ina Habermann, Tobias Doring, Valerie Burton, Jurgen Kramer, Susan Bassnett, Carl Pedersen, Patrizia A. Muscogiuri.

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