Coastal Works
Cultures of the Atlantic Edge
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 6 July 2017
- ISBN 9780198795155
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 223x143x20 mm
- Weight 553 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Includes over 25 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical: a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. This collection presents a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism.
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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn to the coast as a zone of geographical uncertainty in which the self-definitions of the nation founder; they have been drawn to it as a peripheral space of vestigial wildness, of island retreats and experimental living; as a network of diverse localities richly endowed with distinctive forms of cultural heritage; and as a dynamically interconnected ecosystem, which is at the same time the historic site of significant developments in fieldwork and natural science.
This collection situates these cultures of the Atlantic edge in a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the blue humanities, and island studies, the essays challenging the reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery and exchange. These twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the archipelago from the 18th century to the present. Accessible, innovative and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important role that the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a range of methodologies to represent relationships between land, sea, and cultural work.
Coastal Works gives a new turn to archipelagic studies. It musters an extraordinary range of scholarly disciplines - including literary criticism, cultural history, field studies, marine biology, thalassology and ethnography - to capture the meeting of water and land through its lived history, ecology, literary writings and visual art.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Draining the Irish Channel: Identity, Sustainability, and the Politics of Water
The Roar of the Solway
Ireland, Literature, and the Coastal Imaginary
'At the Dying Atlantic's Edge': Norman Nicholson and the Cumbrian Coast
'Felt Routes': Louis MacNeice and the North East Atlantic Archipelago
The Riddle of the Sands: Erskine Childers Between the Tides
Ronald Lockley and the Archipelagic Imagination
Maude Delap's Domestic Science: Island Spaces and Gendered Fieldwork in Irish Natural History
Science at the Seaside: Pleasure Hunts in Victorian Devon
Seeing Through Water: The Paintings of Zarh Pritchard
In the Labyrinth: Annotating Aran
Fugitive Allegiances: the Good Ship Archipelago and the Atlantic Edge
Afterword
