Rosenquist, R. (2015) A Transatlantic ‘Field of Stars’: redrawing the borders of English literature in the late nineteenth century. Critical Survey. 27(3) 0011-1570.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| 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-siècle 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. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Stephen Crane, W.H. Hudson, literary celebrity, Victorian literature |
| Creators: | Rosenquist, Rod |
| Faculties, Divisions and Institutes: |
Faculties > Faculty of Education & Humanities > English and Creative Writing Research Centres > Centre for Critical and Creative Writing |
| Date: | 1 December 2015 |
| Date Type: | Publication |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Critical Survey |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Number: | 3 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3167/cs.2015.270307 |
| ISSN: | 0011-1570 |
| Status: | Published / Disseminated |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| URI: | http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/id/eprint/10820 |
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