Research Catalog

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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Details

Additional Authors

• Cohen, Margaret, 1958-
• Quigley, Killian Colm

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

• Ocean > Miscellanea
• Nature (Aesthetics)
• Environment (Aesthetics)
• Ocean and civilization

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 humanities

Routledge 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