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Written on the water : British romanticism and the maritime empire of culture
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- Creator
- Samuel Baker
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2010
- Physical Details
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- xix, 320 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813927954, 0813927951
- OCLC
- ocn468232076
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Familiar with the sea -- Oceanic fables of culture. Change your lakes for ocean ; Imperial solutions -- The Wordsworth circle's modes of insular empire. The maritime georgic ; Britannia's pastorals ; The dissolution of epic -- Culture's midland waters : Coleridge, Byron, Arnold, America. Nautical existence ; Shipwreck for a poet -- Envoi: For us repeopled were the solitary shore