Introduction: Submarine Aesthetics 1. The Aesthetics of the Early Modern Grotto and the Advent of an Empirical Nature 2. The Porcellaneous Ocean: Matter and Meaning in the Rococo Undersea 3. The Logic of the Invisible: Perceiving the Submarine World in French Enlightenment Geography 4. Understanding the Loss of Colour 5. Hydromania: The Social History and Literary Significance of Romantic Swimming 6. The Great Melancholy Mother: Michelet’s Evolutionary Ocean in The Sea 7. "The Forsaken Merman," "The Little Mermaid," and Early Modernism: Undersea Imagery for the Dissociation and Dissolution of Culture 8. Encountering Living Corals: A Nineteenth-Century Scientist and Artist Reveals the Underwater Realm 9. Frank Hurley and the Symbolic Underwater 10. The Shipwreck of Reason: The Surrealist Diver and Modern Maritime Salvage 11. The Shipwreck as Undersea Gothic 12. Deep Time & Myriad Ecosystems: Urban Biotic Imaginaries and Unstable Planetary Aesthetics 13. Siren and Silent Song: Evolution and Extinction in the Submarine 14.The Ocean Hospital – a Walk around the Ward
Biography
Margaret Cohen is Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization at Stanford University, where she teaches in the Departments of Comparative Literature and English.
Killian Quigley is Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney
