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Maritime relations : life, labour and literature at the water's edge, 1850-1914 / Emily Cuming.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cuming, Emily, author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture.
- Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Autobiography--English authors.
- Autobiography.
- Sailors' writings, English--History and criticism.
- Sailors' writings, English.
- Sailors in literature.
- Families in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Detailing the lives of ordinary sailors, their families and the role of the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, Maritime Relations presents a powerful literary history from below. It draws on archival memoirs and logbooks, children's fiction and social surveys, as well as the work of canonical writers such as Gaskell, Dickens, Conrad and Joyce. Maritime Relations highlights the workings of gender, the family, and emotions, with particular attention to the lives of women and girls. The result is an innovative reading of neglected kinship relations that spanned cities and oceans in the Victorian period and beyond. Working at the intersection of literary criticism, the blue humanities and life writing studies, Emily Cuming creatively redefines the relations between life, labour and literature at the waterly edge of the nineteenth century.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- A sailor in the family : watery genealogy and the maritime memoir
- Logbooks : life writing at sea
- Watery city : sailors and sailortown in the urban imagination
- The sailor's daughter : girlhood and the maritime family story
- Fluid relations : between fact and fiction.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Aug 2025).
- ISBN:
- 1-009-56958-9
- 1-009-56957-0
- 1-009-56955-4
- OCLC:
- 1524994571
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