Maritime relations : life, labour and literature at the water's edge, 1850-1914 / Emily Cuming, Liverpool John Moores University.

Author/creator Cuming, Emily author.
Format Book
PublicationCambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press , 2025.
Descriptionxi, 278 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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SeriesCambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture
Cambridge studies in nineteenth-century literature and culture. ^A344711
Contents Introduction -- A sailor in the family : watery genealogy and the maritime memoir -- Logbooks : life writing at sea -- Watery city : sailors and sailortown in the urban imagination -- The sailor's daughter : girlhood and the maritime family story -- Fluid relations : between fact and fiction.
Abstract "Exploring representations of ordinary sailors, their families and the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, this study engages a wealth of new archival material, including unpublished life writing, alongside re-readings of familiar novels and social surveys, to present an innovative account of the relations between class, family and the sea"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2024059139
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ISBN1009569538
ISBN9781009569569 (paperback)
ISBN1009569562
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