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A Transatlantic 'Field of Stars': Redrawing the Borders of English Literature in the Late Nineteenth Century
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rosenquist, Rod |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | This article examines a map of the English coast surrounding Romney Marsh in 1895, hand-drawn by Ford Madox Ford for his memoir, Return to Yesterday (1931). The map is read as a cultural reconstruction of the shifting terrain of fin-de-siecle literary reputation, representing late-Victorian English letters as a distinctly transatlantic realm. Ford’s illustration is analysed as an early incarnation of the celebrity ‘star map’: it positions authors in specific locations, while also tracing constellations of developing alliances, dividing the aesthetically minded foreigners from a defensive grouping of British institutional icons. Ford redraws the centre and the boundaries of English literature through his act of map-making, positioning his ‘alien’ literary celebrities – including transatlantic icons of the late nineteenth century, like Henry James, Stephen Crane and W.H. Hudson – along the Romney coast, a site associated with invasion, fluid boundaries, and shifting coastlines. |
| Starting Page | 105 |
| Ending Page | 123 |
| Page Count | 19 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3167/cs.2015.270307 |
| Volume Number | 27 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8032/3/Rosenquist20158032.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2015.270307 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
