Maritime Modernism

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).

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.

• 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