Table Of ContentCultural Responses to the Sea,
1600–Present
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Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea,
1600–Present
Charlotte M athieson
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Sea Narratives:
Cultural Responses to
the Sea, 1600–Present
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Charlotte Mathieson
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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CKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This collection of essays began with the ‘Sea Narratives’ symposium held
by the Travel and Mobility Studies Network at the University of Warwick,
Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), in January 2014. Thanks are due to
the IAS for funding the network from 2012 to 2015, and to co-organisers
Dr Loredana Polezzi and Dr Tara Puri for their work on the network and
this event.
The original symposium generated highly interesting and engaging
debate on the topic of Sea Narratives, and established a clear niche for
a collection on the theme. Three of the six original presenters from the
conference were able to develop their papers for publication here, and
they are joined by six additional essays that speak to the themes of the day.
I would like to thank all of the contributors for their hard work on their
papers. Thanks also go to Palgrave Macmillan for supporting the publica-
tion, and to the anonymous reviewer whose illustrative feedback helped
shape the fi nal book.
The editor and contributors are grateful for the kind permission of the
National Maritime Museum, Greenwich; National Library of South Africa;
and Historical Papers Research Archive, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, South Africa, for reproduction of images that appear in
Chaps. 3 and 4 .
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ONTENTS
1 Introduction: The Literature, History and
Culture of the Sea, 1600–Present 1
Charlotte Mathieson
2 A Need to Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts
of Atlantic Crossings 23
Michael Harrigan
3 ‘A Sea of Stories’: Maritime Imagery and Imagination
in Napoleonic Narratives of War Captivity 47
Elodie Duché
4 ‘Through Dustless Tracks’ for African Rights: Narrative
Currents and Political Imaginaries of Solomon Plaatje’s
1914 Sea Voyage 81
Janet Remmington
5 ‘From Icy Backwater to Nuclear Waste Ground’:
The Russian Arctic Ocean in the Twentieth Century 1 11
Eva-Maria Stolberg
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6 Shores of History, Islands of Ireland: Chronotopes
of the Sea in the Contemporary Irish Novel 1 39
Roberta Gefter Wondrich
7 Women at Sea: Locating and Escaping Gender on the
Cornish Coast in Daphne du Maurier’s The Loving Spirit
and Frenchman’s Creek 1 71
Gemma Goodman
8 Travelling Across Worlds and Texts in A. S. Byatt’s Sea
Narratives 1 95
Barbara Franchi
9 Unveiling the Anthropo(s)cene: Burning Seas, Cinema
of Mourning and the Globalisation of Apocalypse 217
Sayandeb Chowdhury
10 The Tolerant Coast 2 39
Isaac Land
Index 261
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OTES ON ONTRIBUTORS
Sayandeb Chowdhury i s an Assistant Professor at the School of Liberal
Studies, Ambedkar University, Delhi. He is also PhD Fellow at the Department of
Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta. He was UKNA Research Fellow at the
International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden between April and July 2015. His
research and teaching interests are in colonial and postcolonial visual forms, mod-
ernism and postmodernism in Europe, literary theory, and the idea of the City. He
has contributed articles to F ilm International , Journal of South Asian History and
Culture , South Asia Review , European Journal of English Studies .
Elodie Duché i s a Lecturer in Modern History at York St John University. She was
appointed Alan Pearsall Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Historical Research
(University of London) for 2014–2015, after completing a doctoral thesis at the
University of Warwick on Napoleonic experiences of captivity. She has recently
published an article on transnational charity networks for prisoners of war as part
of a special issue on war captivity in Napoleonica. La Revue edited by François
Houdecek and Alexander Mikaberidze. She has also published on gender and mat-
rimony in war captivity in Catherine Exley’s Diary: The Life and Times of an Army
Wife in the Peninsular War , ed. Rebecca Probert (2014). She co-founded the
Prisoner of War Studies Network.
Barbara F ranchi i s a doctoral candidate in the School of English, University of
Kent. Her research examines strategies of intertextuality and ekphrasis in A. S.
Byatt’s fi ction, in relation to fi ve crucial discourses in the novelist’s oeuvre: geo-
graphical dichotomies, war narratives, science, visual arts and literary creativity.
Her further research interests include Victorian and neo-Victorian literature, the
novel form, feminist and queer theory, and fairy tales. She has co-edited ‘Feminist
Perspectives Across the Board: Analyses and Approaches’ (December 2014), a spe-
cial issue for C ontention: The Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Protest .
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