Bernhard Klein
Ashgate
Hardback
250
2002
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. 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.
Ashgate
Hardback
250
2002
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. 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.