The British Industrial Canal: Reading the Waterways from the Eighteenth Century to the Anthropocene: Intersections in Literature and Science
Autor Jodie Matthewsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 19 sep 2023
Wherever a boat glides along a canal, a pen follows. Bringing together textual treasures from four centuries of waterways writing, The British Industrial Canal explores our relationship with engineered water and canal connections between our industrial and colonial pasts and the Anthropocene. This literary critical voyage travels from 1761, the opening of the Duke of Bridgewater’s canal, to the present.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781837720033
ISBN-10: 1837720037
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: No
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Seria Intersections in Literature and Science
ISBN-10: 1837720037
Pagini: 264
Ilustrații: No
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: University of Wales Press
Colecția University of Wales Press
Seria Intersections in Literature and Science
Notă biografică
Jodie Matthews is professor of literature at the University of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. She is currently head of the Department for Communication and Humanities.
Cuprins
Acknowledgements
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Practical Arts of the Waterways
Chapter Three: Colonizing CanalLand
Chapter Four: Women, War, and the Waterways
Chapter Five: Waters of Life and Death
Chapter Six: The Basin, or Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Practical Arts of the Waterways
Chapter Three: Colonizing CanalLand
Chapter Four: Women, War, and the Waterways
Chapter Five: Waters of Life and Death
Chapter Six: The Basin, or Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Recenzii
"Jodie Matthews writes with a beautifully polyphonic voice … aptly reflecting the multidimensional nature of the canal as a place where the ghosts of our imperial, industrial past co-exist with our restless present and the prospect of a catastrophically different future. With all the rigor of academic enquiry and the clarity and lyricism of the very element Matthews writes about, this wonderful book exposes the porosity of the past and the edges of our natures."
"A meticulously researched work. This is a much needed counterpoint to the current tendency of clothing the world of the waterways in a cloud of nostalgia – or, more recently, 'living the dream' – mythologising both the environment and the people of the canals."
"In a book by turns scholarly, lyrical and deeply thought-provoking, Matthews uses the literature of the canal to interrogate history, culture and the politics of nostalgia. Our waterways, cutting through the landscape and fulfilling the role of both industry and nature, tend to be both overlooked and taken for granted … The British Industrial Canal explores how they have impacted our society and continue to have relevance into the future."