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OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi COASTAL WORKS OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi TimRobinson,OileáinÁrann,MapoftheAranIslands(detail)(1980,revised1996). OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi Coastal Works Cultures of the Atlantic Edge Editedby NICHOLAS ALLEN NICK GROOM and JOS SMITH 1 OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©theseveralcontributors2017 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2017 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2016962097 ISBN 978–0–19–879515–5 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi To Máiréad and Tim Robinson OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi Acknowledgements TheeditorsgratefullyacknowledgetheworkofTimRobinsonasasource of inspiration for the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Project, now the Atlantic Archipelagos Research Consortium, an international network of scholarsworkinginthehumanities.Thisbookhasgrownoutofthemany events that this network has organized, for which we are indebted to the generous support of the British Academy; the University of Exeter; Magdalene College, Cambridge; the Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, the National University of Ireland, Galway; the Druid Theatre Company; University College Dublin; the Willson Center for Humanities and Arts at the University of Georgia; Somerville College, Oxford; and TORCH (the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities). For providing images, we would also like to thank the staff at the Ashmolean Museum; Tullie House Museum and Art GalleryCarlisle;theBrooklynMuseum;theScrippsInstitutionofOcean- ography; the Natural History Museum of Ireland; the James Hardiman Library, National University of Ireland, Galway; and the Valentia Island Heritage Centre. We are especially indebted to Norman Ackroyd and Tim Robinson for generously allowing us to use their work for the volume’s cover and endpapers, and to Elliot Kendall, who created the cartographic frontispieces for each chapter. Our thanks also to Alan Ackroyd, Valentina Bold, Matthew Campbell, Claire Connolly, Eamon Duffy, Hugh Haughton, Kacie Hittel, Robert Macfarlane, Jacqueline Norton, Eve Patten, Nels Pearson, and Alan Riach for their support and encouragement. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,1/6/2017,SPi Contents ListofIllustrations xi ListofCartographicFrontispieces xiii ListofContributors xv 1. Introduction 1 NicholasAllen,NickGroom,andJosSmith 2. DrainingtheIrishSea:TheColonialPoliticsofWater 21 NickGroom 3. TheRoaroftheSolway 41 FionaStafford 4. Ireland,Literature,andtheCoastalImaginary 61 NicholasAllen 5. ‘AttheDyingAtlantic’sEdge’:NormanNicholson andtheCumbrianCoast 77 AndrewGibson 6. ‘FeltRoutes’:LouisMacNeiceandtheNorth-EastAtlantic Archipelago 93 JohnBrannigan 7. TheRiddleoftheSands:ErskineChildersBetweentheTides 111 DanielBrayton 8. RonaldLockleyandtheArchipelagicImagination 131 DamianWalfordDavies 9. MaudeDelap’sDomesticScience:IslandSpacesand GenderedFieldworkinIrishNaturalHistory 161 NessaCronin 10. ScienceattheSeaside:PleasureHuntsinVictorianDevon 181 KyriakiHadjiafxendiandJohnPlunkett 11. SeeingThroughWater:ThePaintingsofZarhPritchard 205 MargaretCohen 12. IntheLabyrinth:AnnotatingAran 225 AndrewMcNeillie

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In all the complex cultural history of the islands of Britain and Ireland the idea of the coast as a significant representative space is critical. For many important artists coastal space has figured as a site from which to braid ideas of empire, nation, region, and archipelago. They have been drawn
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