Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present

By Charlotte Mathieson

Book Overview

Introduction: The literature, history and culture of the sea, 1600-present by Charlotte Mathieson. - 1. A Need to Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts of Atlantic Crossings by Michael Harrigan. - 2. 'A sea of stories': Maritime imagery and imagination in Napoleonic narratives of war captivity by Elodie Duch?. - 3. 'Through Dustless Tracks' for African Rights: Narrative Currents and Political Imaginaries of Solomon Plaatje's 1914 Sea Voyage by Janet Remmington. - 4. 'From Icy Backwater to Nuclear Waste Ground': The Russian Arctic Ocean in the Twentieth Century by Eva-Maria Stolberg. - 5. Shores of history, islands of Ireland: Chronotopes of the sea in the contemporary Irish novel by Roberta Gefter Wondrich. - 6. Women at Sea: Locating and Escaping Gender on the Cornish Coast in The Loving Spirit and Frenchman's Creek by Gemma Goodman. - 7. Travelling across Worlds and Texts in A. S. Byatt's Sea Narratives by Barbara Franchi. - 8. Unveiling the anthropo(s)cene: Burning seas, cinema of mourning and the globalisation of apocalypse by Sayandeb Chowdhury. - 9. The Tolerant Coast by Isaac Land

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349845302
• ISBN13: 9781349845309
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"