Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language (e-bog) af Kerr, Matthew P. M.
Kerr, Matthew P. M. (forfatter)

Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language e-bog

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To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularly patterns of expression, many of which had begun to feel not just settled but exhausted. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language takes up this circumstance, showing how prose writers in this period grappled with the supe...
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Forfattere Kerr, Matthew P. M. (forfatter)
Forlag OUP Oxford
Udgivet 27 januar 2022
Længde 304 sider
Genrer Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900
Sprog English
Format pdf
Beskyttelse LCP
ISBN 9780192657770
To write about the sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was to do so against a vast accretion of past deeds, patterns of thought, and particularly patterns of expression, many of which had begun to feel not just settled but exhausted. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language takes up this circumstance, showing how prose writers in this period grappled with the super-conventionalized nature of the sea as a setting, as a shaper ofplot and character, as a structuring motif, and as a source of metaphor. But while writing about the sea required careful negotiation of multiple andsometimes conflicting associations, the sea's multiplicity and freight function not just as impediments to thought or expression but as sources of intellectual and expressive possibilities. The Victorian Novel and the Problems of Marine Language treats a provocatively diverse group of key authors spanning from the 1830s to the 1930s and including both those inextricably associated with the sea (FrederickMarryat, Joseph Conrad) and those whose writings are less obviously marine, such as Charlotte Bront Charles Dickens, George Eliot, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Virginia Woolf. What these writers share, among other things, is that they simultaneously register and turn to account the difficulties that attendwriting about, and writing with, the sea. In the process, their sea-writing sheds new light on the value of marginalized representational techniques including repetition, clich and imprecision.