The lure of the sea : the discovery of the seaside in the Western world 1750 - 1840

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The lure of the sea : the discovery of the seaside in the Western world 1750 - 1840

Alain Corbin ; translated by Jocelyn Phelps

（Penguin history）

Penguin, 1995

タイトル別名

Le territoire du vide

統一タイトル

Territoire du vide

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First published by Polity Press, 1994

Includes bibliographical references and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This is an account of how the pleasures of the seaside were discovered in the Western World. Based on the premiss that how we see the landscape over time is shaped not just by nature but also by the cultural baggage we bring to it, this book argues that with few exceptions, people living before the 18th century knew nothing of the attractions of the coast. The sea was perceived as sinister and unchanging, an unfathomable force inspiring horror, associated with floods, sea monsters and the like. With the Enlightenment, a change occurred. The book follows a course from a theocentric interpretation of the shore as the line drawn by God's finger after the Flood, through the sea as experienced by Neoclassical travellers on the Grand Tour, to the beloved sea of the Romantic poets and the growth of the popular seaside resort that came in their wake.

目次

  • PART I UNCONSCIOUSNESS AND THE FIRST PREMISES OF DESIRE: The Roots of Fear and Repulsion - The abyss containing the debris from the Great Flood, Antiquity's codification of the sea's anger
  • The First Steps towards Admiration - The enchantment of the watery mirror and the source of profound certainty, A receptacle for divine wonders, The admirable road to Scheveningen, The pleasure of interpretation: the pilgrimage to the shores of Campania. PART II THE PATTERN OF A NEW PLEASURE: A New Harmony between the Body and the Sea - The shift of anxieties and desires, Bathing, the beach, and self-experience, or the ambivalent pleasure of suffocation, Caring for oneself and seaside holiday-making, or a life-style rich in obscure joys
  • Penetrating the World's Enigmas - The archives of the earth, Where the world becomes dry, The scholar's feats of valour
  • The Freshness of Wonder - The sublime cliffs of the sea's Gothic blackness, A belated awareness of marine picturesqueness, The repulsiveness of hot sand and new feelings of clarity
  • The Ephemeral Journey - The new wealth of emotions, The sensual experience of the beach, The private paradises of the sea-shore. PART III THE GROWING COMPLEXITY OF THE SOCIAL SPECTACLE: The Visit to the Harbour - Numerous ways of seeing, The paths of delight
  • The Encyclopaedia of the Strands - The composition of the picture, Expanding the anthropological plan
  • A World of Transparent Characters - Ways of looking for meaning, The adventures of the anthropoid, The golden age of the shores
  • The Pathos of the Shores and their Metamorphoses - The dramaturgy of feelings, The blood of the sea, Shipwrecks on the sand
  • Inventing the Beach - The genealogy of practices, Attuning space with desire, The initial primacy of the aristocracy.

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