Written on the Water

Klappentext Tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. This book analyzes William Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta, and Lord Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales. Zusammenfassung Tracks an uncanny interrelationship between ocean imagery and culturalist rhetoric of culture forward from the late Augustans to the mid-Victorians. This book analyzes William Wordsworth's pronounced ambivalence toward the sea! Samuel Taylor Coleridge's sojourn as an imperial functionary in Malta! and Lord Byron's cosmopolitan seafaring tales.

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Samuel Baker is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin.