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Written on the water : British romanticism and the maritime empire of culture /

"Water, water is everywhere in Romantic literature, but most treatments of the poetry of the period have not adequately registered this fact. By situating Romanticism within the historical context of an emergent British maritime empire, Baker provides a new way of thinking about literature. Wri...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Baker, Samuel, 1968-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010.
Colección:JSTOR EBA.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part one. Oceanic fables of culture. Change your lakes for ocean; Imperial solutions
  • Part two. The Wordsworth circle's modes of insular empire. The maritime georgic; Britannia's pastorals; The dissolution of epic
  • Part three. Culture's midland waters : Coleridge, Byron, Arnold, America. Nautical existence; Shipwreck for a poet.