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The aesthetics of the undersea
- Title
- The aesthetics of the undersea / edited by Margaret Cohen and Killian Quigley.
- Publication
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xvi, 236 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates; 25 cm.
- Summary
- "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"--
- Series Statement
- Routledge environmental humanities
- Uniform Title
- Routledge environmental humanities.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-5164
- ISBN
- 9780367001582
- 0367001586
- 9780429444203 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018030301
- 40029017945
- OCLC
- 1057730529
- Title
- The aesthetics of the undersea / edited by Margaret Cohen and Killian Quigley.
- Publisher
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Routledge environmental humanitiesRoutledge environmental humanities.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Cohen, Margaret, 1958- editor.Quigley, Killian Colm, editor.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Aesthetics of the undersea Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780429444203 (DLC) 2018050437
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029017945
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-5164