Screen LibraryAn empire of air and water : uncolonizable space in the british imagination, 1750-1850 /
Examining newspapers, voyage narratives, and literary works by Romantic and Victorian writers (including Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Dickens), An Empire of Air and Water examines the role that polar, oceanic, subterranean, and atmospheric spaces played in the British imperial imagination.
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812291858 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812291858.jpg |
| Summary: |
Examining newspapers, voyage narratives, and literary works by Romantic and Victorian writers (including Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Dickens), An Empire of Air and Water examines the role that polar, oceanic, subterranean, and atmospheric spaces played in the British imperial imagination. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (320 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | 6 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812291858 |
| Index Number: | PR447 |
| CLC: | I561.064 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Blank Spaces on the Earth -- Chapter 1. Polar Speculations -- Chapter 2. The Language of the Sea -- Chapter 3. The Regions of the Air -- Chapter 4. Underworlds -- Conclusion. "Dislocated Progress": Atopias in Urban Space -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments. |