Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSN › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - ‘Over Sands to the Lakes’
T2 - Journeys over Morecambe Bay before and after the Age of Steam
AU - Donaldson, Christopher
PY - 2020/12/1
Y1 - 2020/12/1
N2 - This chapter responds to the theme of this collection by offering an exploration of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century representations of the sands of Morecambe Bay. Weaving together works of fiction and literary nonfiction, I consider the recurrent portrayal of Morecambe Bay as a threshold and a frontier. Specifically, I examine the reiteration of this conception of the Bay in the works of William Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Edwin Waugh and others. Collectively, these accounts bear witness to a period of remarkable change in human encounters with Morecambe Bay that took place over the course of the nineteenth century. They offer insights into how the extension of a railway around the bay during the 1850s altered the way people experienced, understood, and represented the passage over the sands.
AB - This chapter responds to the theme of this collection by offering an exploration of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century representations of the sands of Morecambe Bay. Weaving together works of fiction and literary nonfiction, I consider the recurrent portrayal of Morecambe Bay as a threshold and a frontier. Specifically, I examine the reiteration of this conception of the Bay in the works of William Wordsworth, Ann Radcliffe, Edwin Waugh and others. Collectively, these accounts bear witness to a period of remarkable change in human encounters with Morecambe Bay that took place over the course of the nineteenth century. They offer insights into how the extension of a railway around the bay during the 1850s altered the way people experienced, understood, and represented the passage over the sands.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-44780-9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-44780-9
M3 - Chapter (peer-reviewed)
SN - 9783030447793
SP - 163
EP - 178
BT - Sandscapes
A2 - Carruthers, Jo
A2 - Dakkak, Nour
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -