Coastal cultures of the long Nineteenth Century
- Submitting institution
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University of Southampton
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 69097523
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 9781474435734
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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1
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This edited volume of 15 chapters (100,000 words) takes as its subject the diverse meanings, uses and understandings of the coast in the long nineteenth century, and uses them to interrogate questions of space, place, and cultural production. While this volume emerged out of a conference organised in Oxford by both co-editors, the editorial work and joint introduction were largely Kerr’s responsibility. The introduction (9000 words) is Kerr’s work (aside from the chapter summaries), and includes new archival research from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. The collection offers essays from major figures in the cutting-edge field of maritime studies (Margaret Cohen, Christiana Payne) as well as contributions from emerging scholars, and includes interdisciplinary discussions of coastal spaces relevant to literary criticism, art history, museum studies, and cultural geography. Kerr’s own chapter (9000 words) reads the marine and coastal photography of Gustave Le Gray, and considers the particular pressures exerted by the coast on the emergent medium of photography. Philip Hoare contributes an Epilogue (4000 words) which takes as its starting point a research trip down the Itchen toward the port at Southampton, in which both Hoare and Kerr participated. This volume has been positively reviewed in Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 and Victorian Studies.
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