The aesthetics of the undersea / edited by Margaret Cohen and Killian Quigley.
| Other author | Cohen, Margaret, 1958- |
| Other author | Quigley, Killian Colm. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019. |
| Description | 1 online resource. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge environmental humanities |
| Contents | The aesthetics of the early modern grotto and the advent of an empirical nature / Luis Rodr©Ưguez Rinc©đn -- 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. |
| Abstract | "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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Aesthetics of the undersea Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019 9780367001582 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018050437 |
| ISBN | 9780429444203 (eBook) |
| ISBN | (hardback) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |