Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Coastal Culture: Marine Vegetation as Inspiration and Material
Abstract This essay explores how Clement Nye Swift's 1878 painting Une charretée de goemon sur une plage de Bretagne spoke to a range of historical practices and meanings for oceanic algae and articulated a nostalgic account of seaweed collection in the late 1800s, when traditional New England coastal practices were transforming.
Authors
- Naomi Slipp
Publication Details
- Journal
- The New England Quarterly
- Published
- 2024-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_01048
- Primary Topic
- Landscape and Cultural Studies
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00