ENGLISH

Literature, Identity and the English Channel: Narrow Seas Expanded

By Dominic Rainsford

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2002
ISBN
0333773896, 9780333773895
LCC
PR129.F8 R34 2002
Google Books ID
HoZ0QgAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL3956393M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9678652 bytes)
Pages
191\200
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

This book concerns the significance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a timely subject given the intense debates in progress about the actual and desired relationships between Britain and mainland Europe. The book addresses contemporary authors who use the Channel as a focus for cultural comment, comparing their approaches to those of earlier writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand through Hugo and Dickens to historians and travel writers of the 1950s and 1980s.

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