 | An Empire of Air and Water: Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 1750-1850 Subjects: English literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Space in literature; Geography in literature; Place (Philosophy) in literature; Geography and literature; Nationalism and literature; Examining newspapers, voyage narratives, and literary works by Romantic and Victorian writers (including Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Dickens), An Empire of Air and Water examines the role that polar, oceanic, subterranean, and atmospheric spaces played in the British imperial imagination. Siobhan Carroll is Associate Professor of English at the University of Delaware. |
