The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture - 9781472479655

Taylor & Francis

The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary CultureAuthor(s): Steve Mentz, Martha Elena Rojas\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781472479655, 978-1472479655\nSynopsis\nDuring the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations. This collection of ten essays by expert scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The books introduction offers three critical lenses through which to read nineteenth-century Anglophone maritime literature: \""wet globalization,\"" which returns the .