... of oceanic studies, for instance—need to expand their scope from intercultural relations to include the relationships between different (human) forms of life and (human as well as nonhuman) life forms. The essay develops this argument through a dialogue between J. M. Ledgard's planetary novel Submergence...

... of Oceanic Studies.” PMLA 125 , no. 3 : 670 – 77 . Bose Sugata . 2009 . A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Braudel Fernand . 1972 . The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II...

... Foundations of the British Empire in India . New York : Oxford University Press . Subrahmanyam Sanjay . 1995 . “Of Imarat and Tijarat: Asian Merchants and State Power in the Western Indian Ocean, 1400–1750.” Comparative Studies in Society and History 37 , no. 4 : 750 – 80...

... play in Atlantic and Indian Ocean trade networks. Yet in southern Africa travelers who encountered Khoekhoe people often described them simply as wilden , or savages. Their choice to employ this catchall category of otherness at the Cape of Good Hope and several other sites around the world correlated...

....” Eighteenth-Century Studies 48 , no. 1 : 1 – 19 . Pearson Michael . 2003 . The Indian Ocean . London : Routledge . Pinch William R. 1999 . “Same Difference in India and Europe.” History and Theory 38 , no. 3 : 389 – 407 . Prakash Om . 2007 . “English Private...

... and Architecture in an Indian Ocean Port . Seattle : University of Washington Press . ———. 2011 . “From the Port of Mocha to the Eighteenth-Century Tomb of Imam al-Mahdi Muhammad in al-Mawahib: Locating Architectural Icons and Migratory Craftsmen.” Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies 41...

... of the Floating World.” Museum Studies 22 . 1 ( 1996 ): 74 - 93 . Lowell Amy . “One of the ‘Hundred Views of Fuji,’ by Hokusai.” Poetry 9 ( March 1917 ): 305 . Lubin David M. Act of Portrayal: Eakins, Sargent, James . New Haven : Yale UP , 1985 . Mahan Alfred Thayer...

..., and the English and other Europeans used various languages to communicate in trading relations with the East. In Southeast Asia (the “East Indies”), Malay was a significant early modern lingua franca. This study examines the circumstances under which the Dutch explorer Frederick de Houtman came to write...

... . Evolution and Society: A Study in Victorian Social Theory . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Chakrabarty Dipesh . 2000 . Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press . Crosby Christina . 1991 . The Ends...

... These are the oceanic equivalent of roadkill, animals dying in droves not through hunting but due to high volumes of transportation through their natural habitats. Even older studies at the turn of the twentieth century concluded that a sampling of six collisions with whale ships representing those innumerable...

..., England : Manchester UP , 1996 . 141 - 51 . Rubenstein Roberta . “ Intersexions: Gender Metamorphosis in Angela Carter’s The Passion of New Eve and Lois Gould’s A Sea-Change .” Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature 12 , no. 1 ( 1993 Spring ): 103 - 18 . Sage Lorna . Angela...

... the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. As Habib documents in his highly influential study on black lives in England, the early years of the company’s operation saw the arrival of a number of East Indian men and women on English shores. While some, like Peter Pope, were baptized, renamed, given formal...

... Harold include passages on the value of solitude in nature, descriptions of Lake Leman, both calm and in storm, and descriptions of the ocean, while excerpts from Lara, Parisina, The Siege of Corinth, and Manfred are selected for their depictions of morning, twilight, and moonlit scenes...

... will not let them change, and calls the pair back to their predetermined roles in Sweethaven. They look to the ocean for a getaway, but it only delivers them back to the shantytown. The film's final image is of Bluto swimming out to “that sea of isolation from which Popeye so recently emerged” (Quart 1981...

... that the "oceanic" benefits of interdisciplinarity Lyon imagines will be realized by her interpretively based discipline of literary studies. Drawing on metaphors from the natural world, she obliquely claims empirical authority only to stake out the lion's share of interdisciplinary benefits...

... of making situations vivid" (323), as a means of establishing a parallel continuity between emotional responses to reality and emotional responses to fiction. Hayles slyly adopts Edwin Hutchins' book Cognition in the Wild, a detailed examination of ocean navigation that is simultaneously a study...

... creatures escaping with his dreams, he looked over the water and saw the big tank fish—gropers swimming together in congregations of fifty or more like dark clouds arriving from the distance. . . . Norm wiped their salty spray from his face, as he studied them swimming through the ocean of air, to ascend...

... containing other mysterious objects. “Ruth” and her husband Oliver surmise that the journal is a bit of flotsam that traveled across the ocean after having been washed to sea after the earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit Japan in 2011. The “Ruth” sections of the novel involve her reading Nao's journal...

... the spectacle's ineffability, and hence its "grandeur and sublimity": The ocean viewed from the summit of a high cliff—a boundless expanse of country, when seen from the apex of a lofty mountain, are unquestionably objects of grandeur and sublimity; but both are dull and vacant, when com...

... of the familiar matrix of time and space and the imminent emergence of a hybrid global culture: Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first? The earth to be spann'd, connected by network, The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage, The oceans...