Maritime Relations: Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1850–1914

Emily Cuming

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Maritime Relations

Life, Labour and Literature at the Water's Edge, 1850–1914

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Cuming, Emily 2025. ‘Absent Sailor, Orphan Child: Seafarers’ Orphanages and the Construction of the Maritime Family, C. 1874–1930’. Cultural and Social History, p. 1.

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Emily Cuming, Liverpool John Moores University

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: August 2025
Print publication year:: 2025
Online ISBN:: 9781009569552
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009569552

Subjects:: Literature, English Literature 1830-1900, English Literature 1900-1945
Series:: Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture

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Detailing the lives of ordinary sailors, their families and the role of the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, Maritime Relations presents a powerful literary history from below. It draws on archival memoirs and logbooks, children's fiction and social surveys, as well as the work of canonical writers such as Gaskell, Dickens, Conrad and Joyce. Maritime Relations highlights the workings of gender, the family, and emotions, with particular attention to the lives of women and girls. The result is an innovative reading of neglected kinship relations that spanned cities and oceans in the Victorian period and beyond. Working at the intersection of literary criticism, the blue humanities and life writing studies, Emily Cuming creatively redefines the relations between life, labour and literature at the waterly edge of the nineteenth century.

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Maritime Relations
pp i-i

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
pp ii-ii

Maritime Relations - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-vii

Figures
pp viii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-xii

Introduction
pp 1-17

Chapter 1 - A Sailor in the Family
pp 18-59

Chapter 2 - Logbooks
pp 60-100

Chapter 3 - Watery City
pp 101-139

Chapter 4 - The Sailor’s Daughter
pp 140-181

Conclusion
pp 182-186

Notes
pp 187-242

Bibliography
pp 243-269

Index
pp 270-278

Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture - Series page
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