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  • “The Forsaken Merman,” “The Little Mermaid,” and early modernism: Undersea imagery for the dissociation and dissolution of culture

    Editor(s):
    Samuel Baker (see profile)
    Date:
    2021
    Group(s):
    CLCS Romantic and 19th-Century, GS Poetry and Poetics, LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English, TC Cognitive and Affect Studies
    Subject(s):
    Environment (Aesthetics), Culture, Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns), 1888-1965
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    Mermaids, Mermen, Matthew Arnold, Hans Christian Andersen, Sea, Environmental aesthetics, Modernism, Posthumanism, T.S. Eliot
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/ged7-6r26
    Abstract:
    This essay shows how marine imagery mediates thought about culture, by exploring a series of imagined submarine visions across an intertextual network that extends from Matthew Arnold’s poem “The Forsaken Merman” back to Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Little Mermaid,” across the Atlantic to William James’s writings, and thence to essays and poetry by Arnold’s successor as a water-obsessed, culture commanding poet-critic, T. S. Eliot. The essay seeks to bring out how aquatic figures of dissociation and dissolution surface in these authors’ virtualized marine environments, and there structure ways culture has been thought, felt, imagined, and otherwise experienced. It attends especially to the amphibious life of mermaids and mermen. These figures emblematize the idea of culture when they allegorize the movement of thought across boundaries between the human and the inhuman, the social and the natural.
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    Last Updated:
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