By D. Rainsford
This publication matters the importance of the English Channel in British and French literature from the 1780s onwards: a well timed topic given the serious debates in growth concerning the genuine and wanted relationships among Britain and mainland Europe. The e-book addresses modern authors who use the Channel as a spotlight for cultural remark, evaluating their methods to these of previous writers, from Charlotte Smith and Chateaubriand via Hugo and Dickens to historians and trip writers of the Fifties and Nineteen Eighties.
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Hugo was to seek insularity, following in Chateaubriand's footsteps, on the Channel Islands, but Chateaubriand himself was almost born into insularity by virtue of being a Breton. Even today, as John Ardagh writes, Brittany is France's Celtic fringe, a wild mysterious poetic land where the desolate central moorlands slope down to fertile plains, and Atlantic rollers break on rocky headlands. 60 There is the Breton language to be taken into account, too, which still has about half a million speakers, and had many more in the nineteenth century.
Pliny speaks thus of Brittany: 'the Ocean's spectatorial peninsular'. 75 The idea of Brittany as a 'peninsule spectatrice', however, is a revealing accident, prophetic of the tomb, at watch over the Channel, but also evocative of Chateaubriand's status, while alive, as a kind of peninsular himself, jutting out beyond others' experience, reporting magisterially to the hinterland with news from the beyond, whether it be 'outre-tombe' or merely 'outre-Manche'. DISSOLUTION AND RESISTANCE There seems to be every prospect of Chateaubriand's tomb standing where it is for many years to come.
She was a Negro Woman driv'n from France, Rejected like all others of that race, Not one of whom may now find footing there; This the poor Out-cast did to us declare, Nor murmur'd at the unfeeling Ordinance. And here is the text that appears in The Poems of William Wordsworth (1845): We had a female Passenger who came From Calais with us, spotless in array, A white-robed Negro, like a Lady gay, Yet downcast as a woman fearing blame; Meek, destitute, as seemed, of hope or aim She sate, from notice turning not away, But on all proffered intercourse did lay A weight of languid speech, or to the same No sign of answer made by word or face: Yet still her eyes retained their tropic fire, That, burning independent of the mind, Joined with the lustre of her rich attire To mock the Outcast - 0 ye Heavens, be kind!
