Coastal works : cultures of the Atlantic edge

309 Pages·2017·8.06 MB·English

by  Nicholas Allen

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COASTAL WORKS
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TimRobinson,OileáinÁrann,MapoftheAranIslands(detail)(1980,revised1996).
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Coastal Works
Cultures of the Atlantic Edge
Editedby
NICHOLAS ALLEN
NICK GROOM
and
JOS SMITH
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Acknowledgements
TheeditorsgratefullyacknowledgetheworkofTimRobinsonasasource
of inspiration for the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project, now the
Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium, an international network of
scholarsworkinginthehumanities.Thisbookhasgrownoutofthemany
events that this network has organized, for which we are indebted to
the generous support of the British Academy; the University of Exeter;
Magdalene College, Cambridge; the Moore Institute for Research in
the Humanities and Social Studies, the National University of Ireland,
Galway; the Druid Theatre Company; University College Dublin; the
Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia;
Somerville College, Oxford; and TORCH (the Oxford Research Centre
in the Humanities). For providing images, we would also like to thank
the staff at the Ashmolean Museum; Tullie House Museum and Art
GalleryCarlisle;theBrooklynMuseum;theScrippsInstitutionofOcean-
ography; the Natural History Museum of Ireland; the James Hardiman
Library, National University of Ireland, Galway; and the Valentia Island
Heritage Centre. We are especially indebted to Norman Ackroyd
and Tim Robinson for generously allowing us to use their work for
the volume’s cover and endpapers, and to Elliot Kendall, who created
the cartographic frontispieces for each chapter. Our thanks also to Alan
Ackroyd, Valentina Bold, Matthew Campbell, Claire Connolly, Eamon
Duffy, Hugh Haughton, Kacie Hittel, Robert Macfarlane, Jacqueline
Norton, Eve Patten, Nels Pearson, and Alan Riach for their support and
encouragement.
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Contents
ListofIllustrations xi
ListofCartographicFrontispieces xiii
ListofContributors xv
1. Introduction 1
NicholasAllen,NickGroom,andJosSmith
2. DrainingtheIrishSea:TheColonialPoliticsofWater 21
NickGroom
3. TheRoaroftheSolway 41
FionaStafford
4. Ireland,Literature,andtheCoastalImaginary 61
NicholasAllen
5. ‘AttheDyingAtlantic’sEdge’:NormanNicholson
andtheCumbrianCoast 77
AndrewGibson
6. ‘FeltRoutes’:LouisMacNeiceandtheNorth-EastAtlantic
Archipelago 93
JohnBrannigan
7. TheRiddleoftheSands:ErskineChildersBetweentheTides 111
DanielBrayton
8. RonaldLockleyandtheArchipelagicImagination 131
DamianWalfordDavies
9. MaudeDelap’sDomesticScience:IslandSpacesand
GenderedFieldworkinIrishNaturalHistory 161
NessaCronin
10. ScienceattheSeaside:PleasureHuntsinVictorianDevon 181
KyriakiHadjiafxendiandJohnPlunkett
11. SeeingThroughWater:ThePaintingsofZarhPritchard 205
MargaretCohen
12. IntheLabyrinth:AnnotatingAran 225
AndrewMcNeillie