Written on the water
Subtitle: British romanticism and the maritime empire of culture
By: Samuel Baker.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780813927954
Subjects: English poetry -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sea in literature; Water in literature; Imperialism in literature; Romanticism -- Great Britain
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Oceanic fables of culture: Change your lakes for ocean; Imperial solutions; title: Part two. The Wordsworth circle's modes of insular empire: The maritime georgic; Britannia's pastorals; The dissolution of epic; title: Part three. Culture's midland waters, Byron, Arnold, America: Nautical existence; Shipwreck for a poet.