The British Industrial Canal : Reading the Waterways from the Eighteenth Century to the Anthropocene Hardback
by Jodie Matthews
Part of the Intersections in Literature and Science series
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Thousands of literary, popular, non-fiction and archival texts since the eighteenth century document the human experience of the British industrial canal.
This book traces networks of literary canal texts across four centuries to understand our relationships with water, with place, and with the past.
In our era of climate crisis, this reading calls for a rethinking of the waterways of literature not simply as an antique transport system, but as a coal-fired energy system with implications for the present.
This book demonstrates how waterways literature has always been profoundly interested in the things we dig out of the ground, and the uses to which they are put.
The industrial canal never just connected parts of Britain: via its literature we read the ways in which we are in touch with previous centuries and epochs, how canals linked inland Britain to Empire, how they connected forms of labour, and people to water.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2023
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Category:
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: poetry & poets
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose wri..
- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- History: specific events & topics
- Industrialisation & industrial history
- History of science
- History of engineering & technology
- Ships & shipping: general interest
- ISBN:9781837720033
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Information
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:264 pages, No
- Publisher:University of Wales Press
- Publication Date:15/06/2023
-
Category:
- Literary studies: general
- Literary studies: poetry & poets
- Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose wri..
- Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
- 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
- History: specific events & topics
- Industrialisation & industrial history
- History of science
- History of engineering & technology
- Ships & shipping: general interest
- ISBN:9781837720033