Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded
This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s.
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Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded
This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s.
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Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded

Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded

by Joseph A Allen
Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded

Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded

by Joseph A Allen

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This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780333773895
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date: 09/06/2002
Edition description: 2002
Pages: 201
Product dimensions: 9.18(w) x 5.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Dominic Rainsford is Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Romantic Promontories All at Sea Les Fleurs du mal de mer Modernity in Transit Conclusion: In Between The English Channel/La Manche: A Cultural Chronology, 1778-2001 Notes Index
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