Table of Contents
List of Images
Introduction
André Dodeman and Nancy Pedri
Part 1: Controlling Water
Chapter 1 Negotiating Oceans, Islands, Continents, and British Imperial Ambitions in the Maps of Herman Moll, 1697-1732
Alex Zukas
Chapter 2 Journeys to the Source of the River Oxus: Victorian Desires, Colonial Texts
Irina Kantarbaeva-Bill
Chapter 3 “Newfoundland’s Robinson Crusoe?”: Mobility, Masculinity, and the Failure of Ecological Management in Michael Crummey’s Sweetland
Caitlin Charman
Part 2: Crossing Water
Chapter 4 William Braford’s Of Plimoth Plantation: Crossing the Ocean, Travelling between Two Poles of Being
Jean-Luc Tendil
Chapter 5 “Whatever Passes through the Paths of the Sea” (Psalm 8:8): Shipboard Liminality and the Sea Voyage as the Crucible of Missionary Identity from the 1820s to the 1920s?
Rhonda Semple
Chapter 6 Crossing the Sea: Marie Stopes’ Expedition to the Northern Wilds of Japan as Expression of Transcontinental Contacts and Cultural Exchange
Marie Géraldine Rademacher
Interlude: Interview with Lisa Moore
Part 3: Reimagining Water
Chapter 7 Waterways and Ships as Heterotopias of Memory in Caryl Phillips’ Narratives
Svetlana Stefanova
Chapter 8 The Poetics of Water in Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy
Neela Cathelain
Chapter 9 Material Ecocriticism: Maritime Trade, Displacement, and the Environment in Amitav Ghosh’s Fictional Waterscape
Suhasini Vincent
Chapter 10 Negotiating Water in Times of Drought: An Ecocritical Study of Cli-fi Novels Paolo Bacigalupi’s The Water Knife and Benjamin Percy’s Dead Lands
Claire Perrin
Contributors
Index