Maritime Modernism by Nels Pearson
By tracing maritime settings and contexts across modernist literature in Britain and Ireland, Maritime Modernism: Seas, Coasts and Islands in British and Irish Literature reveals new connections between the period’s key texts as well as evidence of how cultural and political relationships to water can differ significantly depending upon one’s vantage point. While writers across the archipelago employed coastal, nautical and oceanic imagery to challenge the narratives and cartographies of maritime-imperial Britain, authors in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales also differ in the ways they imagine the sea/land relationship, and its histories, against the backdrop of a devolving United Kingdom. Major authors such as Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, James Joyce and W.B. Yeats are studied alongside less well-known writers such as Elizabeth Bowen, Lynette Roberts, David Jones, Neil Gunn and Claire Spencer.
Maritime Modernism: Seas, Coasts and Islands in British and Irish Literatures will form a substantial and important addition to contemporary conversations in modernist studies specifically and literary studies in generalThe book builds on recent scholarship in “hydro-criticism” and the Blue Humanities and addresses the intertwined material histories of land and sea across the British Isles.
Nels Pearson is Professor of English at Fairfield University, USA. He is the author of Irish Cosmopolitanism: Location and Dislocation in James Joyce, Elizabeth Bowen, and Samuel Beckett (University Press of Florida, 2015), which was awarded the Donald J. Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book of 2015 by the American Conference for Irish Studies. He is the editor, with Marc Singer, of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World (Ashgate, 2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781399551205 |
| ISBN 10 | 1399551205 |
| Title | Maritime Modernism |
| Author | Nels Pearson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
| Year published | 2026-07-31 |
| Number of pages | 264 |
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