Riverbank and Seashore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature

Riverbank and Seashore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature
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Publisher : McFarland
Total Pages : 189
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ISBN-10 : 9780786422845
ISBN-13 : 078642284X
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Synopsis Riverbank and Seashore in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century British Literature by : Gillian Mary Hanson

The waters of river and sea represent a kind of freedom, a liberty which, as Iris Murdoch writes, enables man "to exist sanely without fear and to perceive what is real." As settings in fiction, the riverbank and seashore are rich in potential, offering a sense of destiny and suggesting the possibility of self-truth and self-knowledge. In British literature, the rural costal setting-shadowed by cliffs, tugged by the constant movement of the sea--becomes the site of revelation and generates the energy that brings characters to a new level of self-awareness. The river's embankments, bridges and tunnels often mark specific stages of revelation and movement in plot. Entrapment and isolation, contingency and communication are themes that seem born of such settings. This book examines the ways in which 21 modern and postmodern writers (from Tennyson to Ted Hughes, from Jane Austen to Jane Gardam) have made use of the physical environment of riverbank and seashore in their work. It considers how each author employs the physical settings in the service of plot and character development, and how those settings are used to connect with some of the major intellectual concerns of the late19th and 20th centuries. Appendices offer significant quotations from the texts under discussion, arranged according to the location they describe: the rural river, the urban river, river into sea, the rural shore, and the urban shore.

The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language

The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 305
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ISBN-10 : 9780192657787
ISBN-13 : 019265778X
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Synopsis The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language by : Matthew P. M. Kerr

To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularly patterns of expression, many of which had begun to feel not just settled but exhausted. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language takes up this circumstance, showing how prose writers in this period grappled with the super-conventionalized nature of the sea as a setting, as a shaper of plot and character, as a structuring motif, and as a source of metaphor. But while writing about the sea required careful negotiation of multiple andsometimes conflicting associations, the sea's multiplicity and freight function not just as impediments to thought or expression but as sources of intellectual and expressive possibilities. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language treats a provocatively diverse group of key authors spanning from the 1830s to the 1930s and including both those inextricably associated with the sea (Frederick Marryat, Joseph Conrad) and those whose writings are less obviously marine, such as Charlotte Brontë, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Virginia Woolf. What these writers share, among other things, is that they simultaneously register and turn to account the difficulties that attend writing about, and writing with, the sea. In the process, their sea-writing sheds new light on the value of marginalized representational techniques including repetition, cliché, and imprecision.

Modernist Waterscapes

Modernist Waterscapes
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 231
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ISBN-10 : 9783031134210
ISBN-13 : 3031134214
Rating : 4/5 (10 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernist Waterscapes by : Marlene Dirschauer

This book identifies water as the key element of Virginia Woolf’s modernist poetics. The various forms, movements, and properties of water inspired Woolf’s writing of reality, time, and bodies and offered her an apt medium to reflect on the possibilities as well as on the exhaustion of her art. As a deeply intertextual writer, Woolf recognised how profoundly water has shaped human imagination and the landscape of the literary past. In line with recent ecocritical and ecofeminist assessments of her works, this book also shows Woolf’s attraction to water as part of an indifferent nature that exists prior to and beyond the symbolic. Through close analyses that span the whole of Woolf’s oeuvre, and that centre on the metaphorical and the material voices of water in her works, Modernist Waterscapes offers a fresh perspective on a writing that is as versatile as the element from which it draws. The monograph addresses postgraduate students and scholars working in modernist studies and Woolf studies in particular.

Negotiating Waters: Seas, Oceans, and Passageways in the Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone World

Negotiating Waters: Seas, Oceans, and Passageways in the Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone World
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Publisher : Vernon Press
Total Pages : 212
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ISBN-10 : 9781622738045
ISBN-13 : 1622738047
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Negotiating Waters: Seas, Oceans, and Passageways in the Colonial and Postcolonial Anglophone World by : André Dodeman

This book examines how seas, oceans, and passageways have shaped and reshaped cultural identities, spurred stories of reunion and separation, and redefined entire nations. It explores how entire communities have crossed seas and oceans, voluntarily or not, to settle in foreign lands and undergone identity, cultural and literary transformations. It also explores how these crossings are represented. The book thus contributes to oceanic studies, a field of study that asks how the seas and oceans have and continue to affect political (narratives of exploration, cartography), international (maritime law), identity (insularity), and literary issues (survival narratives, fishing stories). Divided into three sections, Negotiating Waters explores the management, the crossings, and the re-imaginings of the seas and oceans that played such an important role in the configuration of the colonial and postcolonial world and imagination. In their careful considerations of how water figures prominently in maps, travel journals, diaries, letters, and literary narratives from the 17th century onwards, the three thematic sections come together to shed light on how water, in all of its shapes and forms, has marked lands, nations, and identities. They thus offer readers from different disciplines and with different colonial and postcolonial interests the possibility to investigate and discover new approaches to maritime spaces. By advancing views on how seas and oceans exert power through representation, Negotiating Waters engages in important critical work in an age of rising concern about maritime environments.

The Ecology of Finnegans Wake

The Ecology of Finnegans Wake
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Publisher : University Press of Florida
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9780813072142
ISBN-13 : 081307214X
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis The Ecology of Finnegans Wake by : Alison Lacivita

In this book—one of the first ecocritical explorations of Irish literature—Alison Lacivita defies the popular view of James Joyce as a thoroughly urban writer by bringing to light his consistent engagement with nature. Using genetic criticism to investigate Joyce’s source texts, notebooks, and proofs, Lacivita shows how Joyce developed ecological themes in Finnegans Wake over successive drafts. Making apparent a love of growing things and a lively connection with the natural world across his texts, Lacivita’s approach reveals Joyce’s keen attention to the Irish landscape, meteorology, urban planning, Dublin’s ecology, the exploitation of nature, and fertility and reproduction. Alison Lacivita unearths a vital quality of Joyce’s work that has largely gone undetected, decisively aligning ecocriticism with both modernism and Irish studies.

The British National Bibliography

The British National Bibliography
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1922
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105211722678
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells

Down from London

Down from London
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Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781800855281
ISBN-13 : 1800855281
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Down from London by : Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton

In the first hundred years of the UK rail network, the seaside figures as a nerve centre, managing and making visible the period’s complex interplay between health, death, gender and sexuality. This monograph discusses around 130 novels of the railway age to show how the seaside infiltrates a diverse range of literature, subverting the boundaries between high and low literary culture. The seaside holiday galvanises innovative literary forms, including early twentieth-century holiday crime and romance fiction, which has its origins in the sensational strategies of mid-nineteenth-century authors. Where reading takes place is at least as important as what is read, and case studies on literary Brighton and Dickensian Kent explore the occasionally fraught relationship between seaside towns and the metropolis, as London visitors are represented in – and are the target audience for – literary accounts of the seaside holiday. The act of reading by the sea is itself overdetermined and problematic, a dilemma that is managed in part through the development of text-free literary tourism in the late nineteenth century. Deploying strategies from literary criticism, histories of reading, libraries and the book, and literary tourism, this book recovers ‘seaside reading’ as both a literary sub-genre and a deeply contested mode of engagement.

Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century

Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century
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Publisher : EUP
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1474435742
ISBN-13 : 9781474435741
Rating : 4/5 (42 Downloads)

Synopsis Coastal Cultures of the Long Nineteenth Century by : Matthew Ingleby

This volume examines the cultural importance of the coastline in Britain during a time of vast change.

Understanding Alan Sillitoe

Understanding Alan Sillitoe
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Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Total Pages : 220
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ISBN-10 : 157003219X
ISBN-13 : 9781570032196
Rating : 4/5 (9X Downloads)

Synopsis Understanding Alan Sillitoe by : Gillian Mary Hanson

Understanding Alan Sillitoe offers a lucid appraisal of the life and works of the well-known contemporary British writer hailed by critics as the literary descendent of D.H. Lawrence. Known primarily for his novels Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner, Sillitoe has written more than 50 books over the last 40 years, including novels, plays, collections of short stories, poems, and travel pieces, as well as more than four hundred essays. In this comprehensive study of the major novels and short stories, Hanson reveals Sillitoe's artistic influences and the dominant thematic concerns of his works.

Bibliographic Index

Bibliographic Index
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 946
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105124004792
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Synopsis Bibliographic Index by :