Literature, identity, and the English Channel
Subtitle: narrow seas expanded
By: Dominic Rainsford.
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 191
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism; National characteristics, British, in literature; National characteristics, French, in literature; Literature, Comparative -- English and French; Literature, Comparative -- French and English; French literature -- History and criticism; France -- Relations -- Great Britain; English Channel -- In literature; Great Britain -- Relations -- France
Description: "Literature, Identity and the English Channel examines representations of the Channel in British and French literature from the French Revolution onwards. This is a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses a wide range of authors who have taken the Channel as a focus, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Dickens, Swinburne and Hugo, writers of the First and Second World Wars, and historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1960s, to postmodern fiction of the 1990s."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-187) and index.