Thesis
With many voices: the sea in Victorian fiction
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This thesis considers some of the ways in which the sea was written about and written with in English nineteenth-century prose fiction.
It has become a commonplace of literary criticism that, in the century preceding modernism, prose fiction about the sea was unthinking and uninteresting: indentured to outworn generic codes, tied to certain clichés of national identity, Empire, or slipshod sublimity, and vaguely evoking some or all of them. This thesis does not attempt a general co...
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+ Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (Canada)
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- Funding agency for:
- Kerr, MPM
- Publication date:
- 2013
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Language:
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2013-10-22
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- Kerr, MPM
- Copyright date:
- 2012
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