Download or read book Written on the Water written by Samuel Baker and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-06-07 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Water, water is everywhere in Romantic literature, but most treatments of the poetry of the period have not adequately registered this fact. By situating Romanticism within the historical context of an emergent British maritime empire, Baker provides a new way of thinking about literature. Written on the Water is a wonderful book, as expansive in its attempt to reinterpret Romantic poetry as the nautical horizons it examines."---Alan Bewell, University of Toronto, author of Romanticism and Colonial Disease --