An Introduction to the Blue Humanities

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. It engages with primary texts such as Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner," Homer's Odyssey, and Luis Vaz de Camõess' Lusíads to provide a pedagogy for students to develop an understanding of the Blue Humanities.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 164 pages
Publication date: 07 July 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Blue Humanities is a groundbreaking textbook that delves into the diverse ways in which humans interact with water, drawing upon literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce students to the history and theory of water-centric thinking. Comprising a diverse range of multinational texts and materials, each chapter offers readers a wealth of primary and secondary sources, providing a fresh perspective on the major oceanic regions, saltwater and freshwater geographies, and the physical properties of water that define the Blue Humanities. Each chapter engages with carefully selected primary texts, including renowned 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' Lusíads, to provide an ideal pedagogy for students to develop a comprehensive understanding of the Blue Humanities chapter by chapter. By exploring the many coastlines of the World Ocean, from Pacific clouds to Mediterranean lakes, Caribbean swamps, Arctic glaciers, Southern Ocean rainstorms, Atlantic groundwater, and Indian Ocean rivers, readers gain insight into emerging trends in intellectual culture and the enduring legacy of human thought concerning water. This volume serves as a valuable resource for both undergraduate and graduate courses engaging with the environmental humanities and oceanic literature, offering new avenues for future thinking and investigation into this interdisciplinary field.

Weight: 282g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 12 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367763664