Coastal works : cultures of the Atlantic edge /
In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region and archipelago. They have been drawn...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2017]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Nicholas Allen, Nick Groom, and Jos Smith
- Draining the Irish Sea: the colonial politics of water / Nick Groom
- The Roar of the Solway / Fiona Stafford
- Ireland, literature, and the coastal imaginary / Nicholas Allen
- 'At the Dying Atlantic's Edge': Norman Nicholson and the Cumbrian Coast / Andrew Gibson
- 'Felt Routes': Louis MacNeice and the north-east Atlantic Archipelago / John Brannigan
- The Riddle of the Sands: Erskine Childers between the tides / Daniel Brayton
- Ronald Lockley and the archipelagic imagination / Damian Walford Davies
- Maude Delap's domestic science: island spaces and gendered fieldwork in Irish natural history / Nessa Cronin
- Science at the seaside: pleasure hunts in victorian Devon / Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi and John Plunkett
- Seeing through water: the paintings of Zarh Pritchard / Margaret Cohen
- In the labyrinth: annotating Aran / Andrew McNeillie
- Fugitive allegiances: the good ship Archipelago and the Atlantic edge / Jos Smith
- Afterword / John R. Gillis.