Description
Book SynopsisAn Introduction to the Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprised of multinational texts and materials, each chapter will provide readers with a range of primary and secondary sources, offering a fresh look at the major oceanic regions, saltwater and freshwater geographies, and the physical properties of water that characterize the Blue Humanities. Each chapter engages with carefully chosen primary texts, including frequently taught works such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Homer's Odyssey, and Luis Vaz de Camões's Lusíads, to provide the perfect pedagogy for students to develop an understanding of the Blue Humanities chapter by chapter. Readers will gain insight into new trends in int
Table of Contents
Preface Bodies of Water
1 A Poetics of Planetary Water
2 Blue Humanities Thinking
3 The Vast Pacific
4 The Roaring South
5 The Connected Ocean
6 Surrounded by Land
7 In the Caribbean
8 Northern Lights
9 The Tornadoed Atlantic
10 Conclusion: Touching Moisture
11 Works Cited
12 Essential Reading in the Blue Humanities
