An Empire of Air and Water : Uncolonizable Space in the British Imagination, 175-185
ISBN: 9780812291858
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / University of Pennsylvania Press
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Subjects: 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.
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