Maritime Modernism

Seas, Coasts and Islands in British and Irish Literatures

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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By tracing maritime settings and contexts across modernist literature in Britain and Ireland, Maritime Modernism: Seas, Coasts and Islands in British and Irish Literature reveals new connections between the period’s key texts as well as evidence of how cultural and political relationships to water can differ significantly depending upon one’s vantage point. While writers across the archipelago employed coastal, nautical and oceanic imagery to challenge the narratives and cartographies of maritime-imperial Britain, authors in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales also differ in the ways they imagine the sea/land relationship, and its histories, against the backdrop of a devolving United Kingdom. Major authors such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats are studied alongside less well-known writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Lynette Roberts, David Jones, Neil Gunn and Claire Spencer.

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Utgivningsdatum:2026-07-31
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:264
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781399551205

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Nels Pearson is Professor of English at Fairfield University, USA. He is the author of Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett (University Press of Florida, 2015), which was awarded the Donald J. Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book of 2015 by the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is the editor, with Marc Singer, of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (Ashgate, 2009).

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Maritime Modernism: Seas, Coasts and Islands in British and Irish Literatures will form a substantial and important addition to contemporary conversations in modernist studies specifically and literary studies in general. The book builds on recent scholarship in “hydro-criticism” and the Blue Humanities and addresses the intertwined material histories of land and sea across the British Isles.

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List of FiguresAcknowledgements1. Recovering Islands: Scotland, Ocean, and Archipelago in To the Lighthouse 2. Celtic Hydrology: Water and the British Littoral from D.H. Lawrence to David Jones3. "‘Oed’ und leer das Meer": T.S. Eliot’s Island Culture4. ‘The Invulnerable Tide’: Water, Nation, and Nature in W.B. Yeats5. James Joyce, Ireland, and Oceanic Double Consciousness6. ‘A Dream of Far Sea Surge’: Water as Place in Neil Gunn7. A Tragedy of Figure and Ground: Claire Spencer’s The IslandConclusion: Elizabeth Bowen and the Hyphenated ArchipelagoWorks CitedIndex