Maritime Relations - Life, Labour and Literature At the Water''s Edge, 18501914

"Exploring representations of ordinary sailors, their families and the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, this study engages a wealth of new archival material, including unpublished life writing, alongside re-readings of familiar novels and social surveys, to present an innovative account of the relations between class, family and the sea"--

List of contents

Introduction; 1. A sailor in the family: watery genealogy and the maritime memoir; 2. Logbooks: life writing at sea; 3. Watery city: sailors and sailortown in the urban imagination; 4. The sailor's daughter: girlhood and the maritime family story; Conclusion. Fluid relations: between fact and fiction.

About the author

Emily Cuming is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Liverpool John Moores University. She is the author of Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880-2012 (Cambridge University Press, 2016) and an editorial board member of Journal of Victorian Literature and Key Words: A Journal of Cultural Materialism.

Product details

• Authors: Emily (Liverpool John Moores University) Cuming, Cuming Emily
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.07.2025
• EAN: 9781009569538
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0956953-8
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, 20th Century, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1800 to c 1900, maritime history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, c 1850 to c 1859