Coastal works : culture of the Atlantic edge / edited by Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom, Jos Smith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allen, Nicholas, 1972- editor.

Groom, Nick, 1966- editor.

Smith, Jos, 1980- editor.

UPSO (University Press Scholarship Online)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Coasts--Ireland--Social life and customs.

Coasts.

Coasts--Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Great Britain--Social life and customs.

Great Britain.

English essays.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : map

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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 creates 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, and the essays challenge 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 eighteenth 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. Book jacket.

Contents:

Cover; Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Cartographic Frontispieces; List of Contributors; 1: Introduction; 2: Draining the Irish Sea: The Colonial Politics of Water; 3: The Roar of the Solway; 4: Ireland, Literature, and the Coastal Imaginary; 5: 'At the Dying Atlantic's Edge': Norman Nicholson and the Cumbrian Coast; 6: 'Felt Routes': Louis MacNeice and the North-East Atlantic Archipelago; 7: The Riddle of the Sands: Erskine Childers Between the Tides

8: Ronald Lockley and the Archipelagic Imagination1. LOCATING LOCKLEY; 2. GRAPHIC SCRIPTS: TOWARDS LOCKLEY'S ARCHIPELAGRAPHY; 3. ISLAND-MAKING; 4. LENSES ON THE ISLAND PROJECT; 5. 'NOT QUITE AT HOMENESS': LOCKLEY'S ARCHIPELAGIC UNCANNY; 9: Maude Delap's Domestic ScienceIsland Spaces and Gendered Fieldworkin Irish Natural History; 1. ISLAND SPACES; 2. GENDERED GEOGRAPHIES; 3. 'THE DEPARTMENT'-A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN; 4. RETHINKING IRISH MARITIME HISTORIES; 10: Science at the Seaside: Pleasure Hunts in Victorian Devon; 1. THE NORTH DEVON COAST AND THE ROMANCE OF NATURAL HISTORY

2. THE AQUARIUM: 'OH! I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE'11: Seeing Through Water: The Paintings of Zarh Pritchard; 12: In the Labyrinth: Annotating Aran; 1. QUANTUM JUMP; 2. SHADOW OF AN ISLANDMAN; 3. MOOCHING ABOUT; 4. FOOTNOTE; 5. COASTAL COMMAND; 13: Fugitive Allegiances: The Good Ship Archipelago and the Atlantic Edge; 1. AN ARAN KEENING; 2. THE GOOD SHIP; 14: Afterword: Beyond the Blue Horizon; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9780191836503

0191836508

9780192514370

0192514377

Publisher Number:

40027332380

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