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Oceanic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2023

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Mark Celeste*
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Abstract

This entry expands upon the “oceans” entry from the original Keywords issue. In moving from “oceans” to the “oceanic,” I call for a hydrographic remapping of the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective of networked culture, geopolitics, and ecology via maritime circulation and exchange. Noting selected recent projects as examples in this critical turn, I emphasize the stakes, affordances, and challenges of “reading the oceanic.” The oceanic, I contend, is not simply a descriptor of space but rather an active, ideologically charged and theoretically robust mode of representation.

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Victorian Literature and Culture , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , Fall 2023 , pp. 467 - 470
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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9. See the “Manifesto of the V21 Collective” (2015), V21: Victorian Studies for the 21st Century, http://v21collective.org/manifesto-of-the-v21-collective-ten-theses.

10. Margaret Cohen, The Novel and the Sea (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010), 14.

11. Hester Blum, “The Prospect of Oceanic Studies,” PMLA 125, no. 3 (2010): 670 (capitalization original).

12. John Peck, Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719 –1917 (New York: Palgrave, 2001), 3.

13. See, for example, Mark Celeste, “Metonymic Chains: Shipwreck, Slavery, and Networks in Villette,” in “The Brontës and Critical Interventions in Victorian Studies,” edited by Lauren Hoffer and Elizabeth Meadows, special issue, Victorian Review 42, no. 2 (2016): 343–60.