An Empire of Air and Water : : Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 175-185 / / Siobhan Carroll.
Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places...
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Carroll, Siobhan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut An Empire of Air and Water : Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 175-185 / Siobhan Carroll. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (304 p.) : 6 illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Planetary spaces such as the poles, the oceans, the atmosphere, and subterranean regions captured the British imperial imagination. Intangible, inhospitable, or inaccessible, these blank spaces—what Siobhan Carroll calls "atopias"—existed beyond the boundaries of known and inhabited places. The eighteenth century conceived of these geographic outliers as the natural limits of imperial expansion, but scientific and naval advances in the nineteenth century created new possibilities to know and control them. This development preoccupied British authors, who were accustomed to seeing atopic regions as otherworldly marvels in fantastical tales. Spaces that an empire could not colonize were spaces that literature might claim, as literary representations of atopias came to reflect their authors' attitudes toward the growth of the British Empire as well as the part they saw literature playing in that expansion.Siobhan Carroll interrogates the role these blank spaces played in the construction of British identity during an era of unsettling global circulations. Examining the poetry of Samuel T. Coleridge and George Gordon Byron and the prose of Sophia Lee, Mary Shelley, and Charles Dickens, as well as newspaper accounts and voyage narratives, she traces the ways Romantic and Victorian writers reconceptualized atopias as threatening or, at times, vulnerable. These textual explorations of the earth's highest reaches and secret depths shed light on persistent facets of the British global and environmental imagination that linger in the twenty-first century. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024) English literature 18th century History and criticism. English literature 19th century History and criticism. Geography and literature. Geography in literature. Nationalism and literature Great Britain History 18th century. Nationalism and literature Great Britain History 19th century. Place (Philosophy) in literature. Space in literature. Cultural Studies. LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. bisacsh Literature. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2015 9783110439687 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural and Area Studies 2015 9783110438673 ZDB-23-DKU Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Complete Package 2014-2015 9783110665932 print 9780812246780 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812291858 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812291858 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812291858/original |
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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 |
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