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The British Industrial Canal - Reading the Waterways from the Eighteenth Century to the Anthropocene (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,042
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The British Industrial Canal - Reading the Waterways from the Eighteenth Century to the Anthropocene (Hardcover): Jodie Matthews

The British Industrial Canal - Reading the Waterways from the Eighteenth Century to the Anthropocene (Hardcover)

Jodie Matthews

Series: Intersections in Literature and Science

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Thousands of literary, popular, non-fiction and archival texts since the eighteenth century document the human experience of the British industrial canal. This book traces networks of literary canal texts across four centuries to understand our relationships with water, with place, and with the past. In our era of climate crisis, this reading calls for a rethinking of the waterways of literature not simply as an antique transport system, but as a coal-fired energy system with implications for the present. This book demonstrates how waterways literature has always been profoundly interested in the things we dig out of the ground, and the uses to which they are put. The industrial canal never just connected parts of Britain: via its literature we read the ways in which we are in touch with previous centuries and epochs, how canals linked inland Britain to Empire, how they connected forms of labour, and people to water.

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Imprint: Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Intersections in Literature and Science
Release date: June 2023
First published: 2023
Authors: Jodie Matthews
Dimensions: 216 x 138mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 978-1-83772-003-3
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Professional & Technical > Technology: general issues > History of engineering & technology
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Poetry & poets > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
Books > Sport & Leisure > Transport: general interest > Ships & shipping: general interest > Narrowboats & canals
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Industrial history
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LSN: 1-83772-003-7
Barcode: 9781837720033

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