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Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture
Samuel Baker
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Description for Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of Culture
Hardcover. Tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. This book analyzes William Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta, and Lord Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales. Num Pages: 336 pages, 6 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSC. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 23. Weight in Grams: 658.
The very word 'culture' has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold developed what would become the idea of modern culture, they modeled that idea on Britain's imperial command of the sea. Instead of locating the culture idea's beginnings in the dynamic between the country and the city, Samuel Baker insists on taking into account the significance of water for that idea's development. For the Romantics, figures of the island, the deluge, and the sundering tide often convey the insularity of cultures understood to stand apart from ... Read more
The very word 'culture' has traditionally evoked the land. But when such writers as William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lord Byron, and, later, Matthew Arnold developed what would become the idea of modern culture, they modeled that idea on Britain's imperial command of the sea. Instead of locating the culture idea's beginnings in the dynamic between the country and the city, Samuel Baker insists on taking into account the significance of water for that idea's development. For the Romantics, figures of the island, the deluge, and the sundering tide often convey the insularity of cultures understood to stand apart from ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927954
SKU
V9780813927954
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About Samuel Baker
Samuel Baker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.
Reviews for 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. Written on the Water is a wonderful book, as expansive in its attempt to reinterpret Romantic ... Read more