Maritime Relations

Detailing the lives of ordinary sailors, their families and the role of the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, Maritime Relations presents a powerful literary history from below. It draws on archival memoirs and logbooks, children's fiction and social surveys, as well as the work of canonical writers such as Gaskell, Dickens, Conrad and Joyce. Maritime Relations highlights the workings of gender, the family, and emotions, with particular attention to the lives of women and girls. The result is an innovative reading of neglected kinship relations that spanned cities and oceans in the Victorian period and beyond. Working at the intersection of literary criticism, the blue humanities and life writing studies, Emily Cuming creatively redefines the relations between life, labour and literature at the waterly edge of the nineteenth century.

Author: Emily Cuming
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 09/04/2025
Series: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Cultu
Pages: 300
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781009569538