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OverviewEngland became a centrally important maritime power in the early modern period, and its writers - acutely aware of their inhabiting an island - often depicted the coastline as a major topic of their works. However, early modern English versifiers had to reconcile this reality with the classical tradition, in which the British Isles were seen as culturally remote compared to the centrally important Mediterranean of antiquity. This was a struggle for writers not only because they used the classical tradition to legitimate their authority, but also because this image dominated cognitive maps of the oceanic world. As the first study of coastlines and early modern English literature, Dire Straits investigates the tensions of the classical tradition's isolation of the British Isles from the domain of poetry. By illustrating how early modern English writers created their works in the context of a longstanding cultural inheritance from antiquity, Elizabeth Jane Bellamy offers a new approach to the history of early modern cartography and its influences on literature. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Jane BellamyPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 0.460kg ISBN: 9781442645011ISBN 10: 1442645016 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 09 April 2013 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsReviews'This volume is an ingenious and persuasive tour de force of interdisciplinary research. Highly recommended.' -- A.R. Vogeler Choice Magazine; vol 51:05:14 ‘This volume is an ingenious and persuasive tour de force of interdisciplinary research. Highly recommended.’ -- A.R. Vogeler * Choice Magazine; vol 51:05:14 * ‘Dire Straits is to be welcomed as an important counter-balance to influential histories of the rise of English patriotism and its figuration through geographic discourse… A book which has much to offer to geographers, historians and students of literature alike.’ -- Robert Mayhew * Journal of Historical Geography vol 30:01:2014 * Author InformationElizabeth Jane Bellamy is a professor and John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |