Arasu, Dr Prema, BA (Hons) MLitt (PhD)

The Book of Sea Monsters

Leviathans of Literature

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Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating and beautifully illustrated journey across the world and through the centuries in search of the sea monster.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 213mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 974g
• ISBN-13: 9781399414524
• ISBN-10: 1399414526
• Artikelnr.: 72608287

Autorenporträt

Dr Prema Arasu is a research fellow at the University of Western Australia. They completed a PhD in creative writing at UWA in 2022 and have a master's degree in Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture from the University of St Andrews. Prema's postdoctoral research considers the representation of the deep sea in the popular imagination and the significance of sea monsters across different cultures and mythologies. @prema_arasu

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Enuma Eli (Unknown)
2. Odyssey (Homer)
3. The Aeneid (Vergil)
4. Metamorphoses (Ovid)
5. Naturalis Historia (Pliny the Elder)
6. The Book of Jonah (Unknown)
7. Beowulf (Unknown)
8. The Natural History of Norway (Erich Pontopiddan)
9. 'The Sea-Nymph' (Ann Radcliffe)
10. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
11. 'The Kraken', 'The Merman' and 'The Mermaid' (Alfred Tennyson)
12. 'The City in the Sea' (Edgar Allan Poe)
13. Moby-Dick (Herman Melville)
14. 'Leviathan' (Celia Thaxter)
15. 'Caliban upon Setebos' (Robert Browning)
16. Toilers of the Sea (Victor Hugo)
17. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (Jules Verne)
18. 'In The Abyss' (HG Wells)
19. 'The Terror of the Sea Caves' (Sir Charles GD Roberts)
20. 'The Seafarer' (Ezra Pound)
21. 'The Thing in the Weeds' (William Hope Hodgson)
22. 'Sea-Heroes', 'Thetis' and 'At Ithaca' (Hilda Doolittle)
23. 'Dagon' and 'The Temple' (HP Lovecraft)
24. The Maracot Deep (Arthur Conan Doyle)
Credits
Acknowledgements
Index