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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Publication Date: 15/06/2023
- ISBN:
- 9781837720057
- 9781837720057
- Category:
- Literature: history & criticism
- Format:
- Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
- Publication Date:
- 15-06-2023
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- University of Wales Press
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Social & cultural history
21st century history: from c 2000 -
History of engineering & technology
Narrowboats & canals
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
History of science
Literary studies: fiction
Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
Ships & boats: general interest
Industrialisation & industrial history
Literature: history & criticism
Literary studies: general
Literary studies: poetry & poets
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