Literature, Identity and the English Channel - Narrow Seas Expanded

Informationen zum Autor DOMINIC RAINSFORD is Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. Klappentext This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s. Zusammenfassung This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment! comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers! from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction Romantic Promontories All at Sea Les Fleurs du mal de mer Modernity in Transit Conclusion: In Between The English Channel/La Manche: A Cultural Chronology, 1778-2001 Notes Index

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Acknowledgements Introduction Romantic Promontories All at Sea Les Fleurs du mal de mer Modernity in Transit Conclusion: In Between The English Channel/La Manche: A Cultural Chronology, 1778-2001 Notes Index

Product details

• Authors: D Rainsford, D. Rainsford, Dominic Rainsford
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2002
• EAN: 9780333773895
• ISBN: 978-0-333-77389-5
• No. of pages: 191
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; B, Europe, Cultural Studies, Cultural Theory, Literary theory, Culture—Study and teaching, European Literature, Literature, Modern—20th century, Twentieth-Century Literature, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature: history and criticism, Europe;identity;Romanticism