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Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and
subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination.
Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces-what
Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"-existed beyond the boundaries of
known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of
these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial
expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth
century created new possibilities to know and control them. This
development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to
seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales.
Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that
literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came
to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the
British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in
that expansion. Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank
spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era
of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel
T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee,
Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts
and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian
writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times,
vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest
reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the
British global and environmental imagination that linger in the
twenty-first century.
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Fearful Symmetries (Hardcover)
Ellen Datlow; Contributions by Nathan Ballingrud, Laird Barron, Pat Cadigan, Siobhan Carroll, …
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R874
Discovery Miles 8 740
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From Ellen Datlow, award-winning and genre-shaping editor of more
than fifty anthologies, and twenty of horror's established masters
and rising stars, comes an all-original look into the beautiful,
terrible, tragic, and terrifying. Wander through visions of the
most terrible of angels, the Seven who would undo the world.
Venture through Hell and back, and lands more terrestrial and
darker still. Linger a while in childhoods, and seasons of change
by turns tragic and monstrously transformative. Lose yourself
amongst the haunted and those who can't let go, in relationships
that might have been and never were. Witness in dreams and
reflections, hungers and horrors, the shadows cast upon the wall,
and linger in forests deep. Come see what burns so bright. . . .
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