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Coastal Works: Cultures of the Atlantic Edge by Jos Smith, Nick Groom, Nicholas Allen (Hardcover, 2017)

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ISBN-13: 9780198795155, 978-0198795155. Britain, Ireland and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works Cultures of the Atlantic Edge. In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical.

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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. This collection presents a series of essays that create new contexts for coastal study in literary history and criticism. The contributors frame their research in response to emerging conversations in archipelagic criticism, the blue humanities, and island studies, the essays challenging the reader to reconsider ideas of margin, periphery and exchange. These twelve case studies establish the coast as a crucial location in the imaginative history of Britain, Ireland and the north Atlantic edge. Coastal Works will appeal to readers of literature and history with an interest in the sea, the environment, and the archipelago from the 18th century to the present. Accessible, innovative and provocative, Coastal Works establishes the important role that the coast plays in our cultural imaginary and suggests a range of methodologies to represent relationships between land, sea, and cultural work.