Introduction: Towards a Shared Language: Semantic Exchanges and Cross-disciplinary Interaction

The Pastoral Submarine: William Diaper and Eclogue's Marine Frontier

“…These uncertain dynamics are demonstrably consequential, partly because they touch on the key legal question of whether the European Landscape Convention can, or should, be understood to apply to the undersea. 3 In what follows, I discuss some other, older, poetic attempts to work from terrestrial conventions to imagine and represent the aqueous, the oceanic, and the submarine. I begin in the present in order to indicate the persistence, not to say the intransigence, of the concerns I will be examining in an eighteenth-century context.…”