Overview
Explores the relationship between the sea and culture from the early modern period to the present
Provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the sea and culture, showing how the sea has impacted new modes and forms of narration
Considers themes including the textual strategies used to narrate the new sights of the sea on voyages of discovery; how the sea figures as an imaginative space in maritime geopolitics; and the role of the sea in responding to new technologies of modernity
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600-Present explores the relationship between the sea and culture from the early modern period to the present. The collection uses the concept of the ‘sea narrative’ as a lens through which to consider the multiple ways in which the sea has shaped, challenged, and expanded modes of cultural representation to produce varied, contested and provocative chronicles of the sea across a variety of cultural forms within diverse socio-cultural moments. Sea Narratives provides a unique perspective on the relationship between the sea and cultural production: it reveals the sea to be more than simply a source of creative inspiration, instead showing how the sea has had a demonstrable effect on new modes and forms of narration across the cultural sphere, and in turn, how these forms have been essential in shaping socio-cultural understandings of the sea. The result is an incisive exploration of the sea’s force as a cultural presence.
Reviews
“This is an ambitious volume which, throughout the nine essays, breaks new ground by undertaking exciting cross-disciplinary theorizing, summarising the state of the study of sea narratives thus far. A strong guiding editorial hand shapes and frames the chapters, which each offer the reader a glimpse of innovative original research.” (Catherine Armstrong, Loughborough University, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Charlotte Mathieson is Teaching Fellow at Newcastle University, UK, and previously researched at the University of Warwick, UK. Her publications include Mobility in the Victorian Novel: Placing the Nation (2015).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present
Editors: Charlotte Mathieson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58116-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58115-0Published: 28 June 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-84530-9Published: 03 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58116-7Published: 07 June 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 270
Number of Illustrations: 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History