Shipwreck and Island Motifs in Literature and the Arts

Brigitte Le Juez is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature at Dublin City University (PhD Paris IV-Sorbonne). Her publications are in Reception studies concerning France and Ireland, Geocriticism and Myth criticism. She is President of the Comparative Literature Association of Ireland.Olga Springer is currently completing her PhD study “Ambiguity in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette” at Tuebingen University (Germany). She worked as DAAD-Lektorin at Dublin City University between 2010 and 2012. Her research interests include Victorian literature and ambiguity in literature.

• CONTENTSAcknowledgementsEpigraphBrigitte Le Juez and Olga SpringerIntroduction: Shipwrecks and Islands as Multilayered, Timeless Metaphors of Human ExistenceI: Shipwrecks, Islands and SubjectivityVolkmar Billig“I-lands”: The Construction and Shipwreck of an Insular Subject in Modern DiscourseYulia Pushkarevskaya Naughton, Gerald Naughton, and Samiah HaqueThe Island as ChoraPhillip Stevenson“Mine Was a Peculiar Kind of Wreck”: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Deconstruction of Treasure Island in The WreckerMichael HindsRobinson in Headphones: The Desert Island as Pop Fetish II: The Island as Aesthetic ConceptHeather H. YeungAdventures in Form: The Hebrides and the Romantic ImaginaryPatricia García“The Lighthouse” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1849; Cristina Fernández Cubas, 1997): From the “Egocentred” to a “Geocentred” AnalysisDavid Garrett IzzoFifty Years On: Aldous Huxley’s Island (1962) ReconsideredIII: Weathering the Tempest – Images of Shipwrecks and Islands from Ancient to Modern TimesBarbara FreitagThe Gaelicization of Brasil Island: From Cartographic Error to Celtic ElysiumRobert J. VrtisThe Tempest Toss’d Ship: Twelfth Night and Emotional Communities in Early Modern LondonDyani Johns TaffA Shipwreck of Faith: Hazardous Voyages and Contested Representations in Milton’s Samson AgonistesBarra Ó SeaghdhaIslands and Irelands: Journeys, Mappings and Re-MappingsIV: The Island as Feminine SpaceSara K. Day“Maybe Girls Need an Island”: Desert Islands and Gender Troubles in Libba Bray’s Beauty Queens Amy HicksRecreating Home for the New Girl: Domesticity and Adventure in L.T. Meade’s Four on an IslandShawn ThomsonLady Castaways in the Gilded Age in Edith Wharton’s The House of MirthSandra VlastaIslands to Get Away From: Postcolonial Islands and Emancipation in Novels by Monica Ali, Andrea Levy and Caryl PhillipsV: Experimental Shipwrecks and Island as LaboratoryShiela PardeeDrifting and Foundering: Evolutionary Theory in Kurt Vonnegut’s GalápagosMaria Błaszkiewicz“You Turn Worlds Upside Down”: The Politics of Reversal in Terry Pratchett’s NationPat BreretonShipwrecks and Desert Islands: Ecology and Nature – A Case Study of How Reality TV and Fictional Films Frame Representations of IslandsBeatrice FerraraThe Figuration of the Shipwreck as Political Commentary in Hydra Decapita, an Essay-Film by The Otolith GroupNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex