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The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture (Hardcover)
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The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture (Hardcover)
Series: Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
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During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy
spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and
trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former
colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to
popular literary culture in both nations. This collection of ten
essays by expert scholars in transatlantic British and American
literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for
writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during
this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The
book's introduction offers three critical lenses through which to
read nineteenth-century Anglophone maritime literature: "wet
globalization," which returns the ocean to our discourses of the
global; "salt aesthetics," which considers how the sea influences
artistic culture and aesthetic theory; and "blue ecocriticism,"
which poses an oceanic challenge to the narrowly terrestrial nature
of "green" ecological criticism. The essays employ all three of
these lenses to demonstrate the importance of the ocean for the
changing shapes of nineteenth-century Anglophone culture and
literature. Examining texts from Moby-Dick to the coral
flower-books of Victorian Australia, and from Wordsworth's
sea-poetry to the Arctic journals of Charles Francis Hall, this
book shows how important and how varied in meaning the ocean was to
nineteenth-century Anglophone readers. Scholars of
nineteenth-century globalization, the history of aesthetics, and
the ecological importance of the ocean will find important
scholarship in this volume.
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