Project Description
The purpose of Navigation Culture is to reanimate the history and aesthetics of maritime navigation and surveying, beginning with the rise of the British Empire and the novel as literary form in the 18th century.
This site is comprised of two main parts: 1) Maritime & 2) Surveying, though their concepts are overlapping and content not mutually exclusive.
"Maritime" will analyze the aesthetics of navigational drawings and objects used by everyday sailors, as well as make an account for maritime "curation" via booksellers in 18th-century London and early 19th-century Massachusetts.
"Surveying" will incorporate elements from both land and sea surveying. By using Henry David Thoreau as a key figure, I will theorize toward a notion of a "literary surveyor"--one who simultaneously takes account of land and language, material and metaphor. ​
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