Format:
xvi, 236 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9780367001582
Series Statement:
Routledge environmental humanities
Content:
The aesthetics of the early modern grotto and the advent of an empirical nature / Luis Rodríguez Rincón -- The porcellaneous ocean : matter and meaning in the Rococo undersea / Killian Quigley -- The logic of the invisible : perceiving the submarine world in French Enlightenment natural history / Hanna Roman -- Understanding the loss of colour / Jonathan Lamb -- Hydromania : the social history and literary significance of romantic swimming / Robin Jarvis -- The great melancholy mother : Michelet's evolutionary ocean in La Mer / Natalie Deam -- "The forsaken mermaid", "The little mermaid", and early modernism : undersea imagery for the dissolution and dissociation of culture / Samuel Baker -- Encountering living corals : a nineteenth-century scientist and artist reveals the underwater realm / Iain McCalman -- Frank Hurley and the symbolic underwater / Ann Elias -- The shipwreck of reason : the surrealist diver and modern maritime salvage / Sean Theodora O'Hanlan -- The shipwreck as undersea Gothic / Margaret Cohen -- Deep time & myriad ecosystems : urban biotic imaginaries and unstable planetary aesthetics / Linda Williams -- "Let me take you down" : evolution and extinction in the submarine / Josh Wodak -- The ocean hospital : a walk around the ward / Janet Laurence & Prudence Gibson.
Content:
"Among global environments, the undersea is unique in the challenges it poses - and the opportunities it affords - for sensation, perception, inquiry, and imagination. The Aesthetics of the Undersea charts a history of the subaqueous in Western culture, from the early modern period to the present"--
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seiten 209-223
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780429444203
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Aesthetics of the undersea Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019
Language:
English
Keywords:
Andersen, Hans Christian 1805-1875 Den lille havfrue
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