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Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present - Envisaging the Sea as Social Space (Paperback)
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Framing the Ocean, 1700 to the Present - Envisaging the Sea as Social Space (Paperback)
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Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a
repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder
and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in the West and elsewhere
as 'uninhabited', empty space. This collection, spanning the
eighteenth century to the present, recasts the ocean as 'social
space', with particular reference to visual representations. Part I
focuses on mappings and crossings, showing how the ocean may
function as a liminal space between places and cultures but also
connects and imbricates them. Part II considers ships as
microcosmic societies, shaped for example by the purpose of the
voyage, the mores of shipboard life, and cross-cultural encounters.
Part III analyses narratives accreted to wrecks and rafts, what has
sunk or floats perilously, and discusses attempts to recuperate
plastic flotsam. Part IV plumbs ocean depths to consider how
underwater creatures have been depicted in relation to emergent
disciplines of natural history and museology, how mermaids have
been reimagined as a metaphor of feminist transformation, and how
the symbolism of coral is deployed by contemporary artists. This
engaging and erudite volume will interest a range of scholars in
humanities and social sciences, including art and cultural
historians, cultural geographers, and historians of empire, travel,
and tourism.
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