Sea Narratives: Cultural Responses to the Sea, 1600–Present

1. Introduction: The Literature, History and Culture of the Sea, 1600–Present
Charlotte Mathieson

2. A Need to Narrate? Early Modern French Accounts of Atlantic Crossings
Michael Harrigan

3. ‘A Sea of Stories’: Maritime Imagery and Imagination in Napoleonic Narratives of War Captivity
Elodie Duché

4. ‘Through Dustless Tracks’ for African Rights: Narrative Currents and Political Imaginaries of Solomon Plaatje’s 1914 Sea Voyage
Janet Remmington

5. ‘From Icy Backwater to Nuclear Waste Ground’: The Russian Arctic Ocean in the Twentieth Century
Eva-Maria Stolberg

6. Shores of History, Islands of Ireland: Chronotopes of the Sea in the Contemporary Irish Novel
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

Gemma Goodman

8. Travelling Across Worlds and Texts in A. S. Byatt’s Sea Narratives
Barbara Franchi

9. Unveiling the Anthropo(s)cene: Burning Seas, Cinema of Mourning and the Globalisation of Apocalypse
Sayandeb Chowdhury

10. The Tolerant Coast
Isaac Land

Avainsanat: History, Modern History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Cultural History