Image of the sea : oceanic consciousness in the romantic century

Annotation This Book Explores The Unprecedented Surge Or Oceanic Feeling In The Aesthetic Expression Of The Romantic Century. As Secular Thought Began To Displace The Certainties Of A Sacral Universe, The Oceans That Give Life To Our Planet Offered A Symbol Of Eternity, Rooted In The Experience Of Nature Rather Than Biblical Tradition. Images Of The Sea Permeated The Minds Of The Early Romantics, Became A Significant Ingredient Of Romantic Expression, And Continued To Emerge In The Language, Literature, Art, And Music Of The Nineteenth Century. These Pages Document The Evidence For This Oceanic Consciousness In Some Of The Most Creative Minds Of That Century. Prelude: The Sea In Human Consciousness -- Image Of The Sea In Western Culture -- The Expansion Of European Civilization -- The Seascape As Art Form -- The Italian Seacoast: Light And Vapor -- The Road To Revolution And Romanticism -- The Romantic Floodtide: Seastorms, Shipwrecks, And Revolution -- Reason And The Seas Of Change -- The Sea In Folk Art: The Ex Voto -- The Ossianic Phenomenon -- The Lure Of Sea Bathing -- Accounts Of Voyagers -- The Sea In Public Consciousness -- Image Of The Sea In A Changing World -- The Romantic Seascape -- The Young Turner -- The British Sea World: The Sea And The Romantic Imagination -- Maritime England -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- William Wordsworth -- John Keats -- The Cathedral Of The Sea -- Visions Of The Sea: Byron And Shelley -- The Seascapes Of J.m.w. Turner -- The German Sea World: Oceanic Images In Painting And Poetry -- Romanticism In Germany -- Painter Of The Baltic Sea: C.d. Friedrich -- Poet Of The North Sea: Heinrich Heine -- The French Sea World: Oceanic Feeling In Literature And Painting -- Romanticism In France -- Lamartine And The Sea -- Victor Hugo And The Sea -- The Painted Sea In France: Theodore Gericault -- Eugene Delacroix And The Sea -- Maritime France And The Seascape -- Interlude: The Decline Of Romance And The Sailing Voyage -- Science And Materialism -- Sea Travel: Sail Vs. Steam -- In Praise Of The Sailing Ship -- The Romance Of The Sailing Ship -- The Romantic Ebb Tide: Oceans Of Will And Fantasy -- Richard Wagner--romanticism Submerged. Howard F. Isham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Annotation This book explores the unprecedented surge of oceanic feeling in the aesthetic expression of the romantic century. As secular thought began to displace the certainties of a sacral universe, the oceans that give life to our planet offered a symbol of eternity, rooted in the experience of nature rather than Biblical tradition. Images of the sea permeated the minds of the early Romantics, became a significant ingredient of romantic expression, and continued to emerge in the language, literature, art, and music of the nineteenth century. These pages document the evidence for this oceanic consciousness in some of the most creative minds of that century «Every Romantic or nineteenth-century collection should include this unusual study. Dr. Isham’s unprecedented constellation of skills makes ‘Image of the Sea’ not only the first, but probably the final word on its important subject. Scholars in art, music, literature, philosophy and nineteenth century culture will be grateful to Dr. Isham for conquering this enormous subject.» (George J. Leonard, author ‘Into the Light of Things: The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage’)