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Author:

Baker, Samuel, 1968-

Title:

Written on the water : British romanticism and the maritime empire of culture / Samuel Baker.

Publisher:

University of Virginia Press,

Copyright Date:

2010

Description:

xix, 320 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Subject:

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.

Contents:

Part one. Oceanic fables of culture. Change your lakes for ocean; Imperial solutions -- Part two. The Wordsworth circle's modes of insular empire. The maritime georgic; Britannia's pastorals; The dissolution of epic -- Part three. Culture's midland waters : Coleridge, Byron, Arnold, America. Nautical existence; Shipwreck for a poet.

ISBN:

0813927951 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813927954 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)468232076

LCCN:

2009046891

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)