Emily Cuming
Biographic Data
| ID | 3422399 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Cuming |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Cuming |
| SIGNATURE | CUMING E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Liverpool John Moores University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0378-1474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Maritime Relations
Detailing the lives of ordinary sailors, their families and the role of the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, Maritime Relations presents a powerful literary history from below. It draws on archival memoirs and logbooks, children's fiction and social surveys, as well as the work of canonical writers such as Gaskell, Dickens, Conrad and Joyce. Maritime Relations highlights the workings of gender, the family, and emotions, with particular a…
Maritime Relations
Absent Sailor, Orphan Child
The rapid expansion of juvenile institutional homes in the late nineteenth century was accompanied by increased provision for the destitute children of British sailors. Though they afforded charitable relief to mariners’ families, these religiously-affiliated institutions also reinforced a patriotic narrative centred on the linked figures of the British sailor and the orphan child. Using as a case-study the Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphan Institu…
At Home in the World? The Ornamental Life of Sailors in Victorian Sailortown
This article explores the representation of British sailortown and merchant sailors onshore in the context of their representation in Victorian writing and contemporary journalism. It proposes that sailortown functioned as an urban setting which offered the traveling or returning sailor an important sense of homeliness—a homeliness that was paradoxically based on the promotion of a collective and worldly belonging. This sense of “worldliness” was…
Revealing Fragments
Focusing on the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, one of the largest collections of life-writing 'from below', this article explores the process of writing and the emotional framework within which they were penned. The autobiographies vary in length but, essentially, all are fragments of a life and memories shared. Some are fragmentary by nature of their brevity, while others seem to be incomplete. Often these autobiographical fragm…
Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880-2012
Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as a framing device for the representation of individuals and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collection of well known, and less familiar, works by writers including Charles Booth, Octavia Hill, James Joyce, Pat O'Mara, Rose Macaulay, Patrick Hamilton, Sam Selvon, Sarah Waters, Lynsey Hanley and Andrea Levy, the author reflects upon and challenges var…
Private Lives, Social Housing
This article explores the landscape of the British housing estate as a social and aesthetic backdrop and environment in female coming-of-age narratives. I argue that the relatively unexamined, complex, and paradoxical space of the housing estate – defined by its social and spatial peripherality – is integral to these stories of self-identity. I show how housing estates, associated with a narrative of decline, inform specific female ways of seeing…
Home is home be it never so homely’
Journal Article ‘Home is home be it never so homely’: Reading Mid-Victorian Slum Interiors Get access Emily Cuming Emily Cuming 1University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2013, Pages 368–386, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.826424 Published: 01 September 2013
The Order of Things Past
This paper addresses an increasing self-reflexivity in lifewriting with regard to the form and composition of the autobiographical subject. I deploy Lévi-Strauss’s figure of the bricoleur — the ‘Jack-of-all-Trades’ who uses whatever tools there are to hand — to represent the eclectic set of practices deployed in this postmodern expression of subjectivity. As an illustration, the study focuses upon the prose work of Northern Irish poet Ciaran Cars…
Revealing Fragments
Focusing on the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, one of the largest collections of life-writing 'from below', this article explores the process of writing and the emotional framework within which they were penned. The autobiographies vary in length but, essentially, all are fragments of a life and memories shared. Some are fragmentary by nature of their brevity, while others seem to be incomplete. Often these autobiographical fragm…
Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880-2012
Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as a framing device for the representation of individuals and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collection of well known, and less familiar, works by writers including Charles Booth, Octavia Hill, James Joyce, Pat O'Mara, Rose Macaulay, Patrick Hamilton, Sam Selvon, Sarah Waters, Lynsey Hanley and Andrea Levy, the author reflects upon and challenges var…
Private Lives, Social Housing
This article explores the landscape of the British housing estate as a social and aesthetic backdrop and environment in female coming-of-age narratives. I argue that the relatively unexamined, complex, and paradoxical space of the housing estate – defined by its social and spatial peripherality – is integral to these stories of self-identity. I show how housing estates, associated with a narrative of decline, inform specific female ways of seeing…
At Home in the World? The Ornamental Life of Sailors in Victorian Sailortown
This article explores the representation of British sailortown and merchant sailors onshore in the context of their representation in Victorian writing and contemporary journalism. It proposes that sailortown functioned as an urban setting which offered the traveling or returning sailor an important sense of homeliness—a homeliness that was paradoxically based on the promotion of a collective and worldly belonging. This sense of “worldliness” was…
The Order of Things Past
This paper addresses an increasing self-reflexivity in lifewriting with regard to the form and composition of the autobiographical subject. I deploy Lévi-Strauss’s figure of the bricoleur — the ‘Jack-of-all-Trades’ who uses whatever tools there are to hand — to represent the eclectic set of practices deployed in this postmodern expression of subjectivity. As an illustration, the study focuses upon the prose work of Northern Irish poet Ciaran Cars…
Private Lives, Social Housing
This article explores the landscape of the British housing estate as a social and aesthetic backdrop and environment in female coming-of-age narratives. I argue that the relatively unexamined, complex, and paradoxical space of the housing estate – defined by its social and spatial peripherality – is integral to these stories of self-identity. I show how housing estates, associated with a narrative of decline, inform specific female ways of seeing…
Home is home be it never so homely’
Journal Article ‘Home is home be it never so homely’: Reading Mid-Victorian Slum Interiors Get access Emily Cuming Emily Cuming 1University of Leeds Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Victorian Culture, Volume 18, Issue 3, 1 September 2013, Pages 368–386, https://doi.org/10.1080/13555502.2013.826424 Published: 01 September 2013
Housing, Class and Gender in Modern British Writing, 1880-2012
Domestic interiors and housing environments have historically been portrayed as a framing device for the representation of individuals and social groups. Drawing together a wide and eclectic collection of well known, and less familiar, works by writers including Charles Booth, Octavia Hill, James Joyce, Pat O'Mara, Rose Macaulay, Patrick Hamilton, Sam Selvon, Sarah Waters, Lynsey Hanley and Andrea Levy, the author reflects upon and challenges var…
Revealing Fragments
Focusing on the Burnett Archive of Working Class Autobiography, one of the largest collections of life-writing 'from below', this article explores the process of writing and the emotional framework within which they were penned. The autobiographies vary in length but, essentially, all are fragments of a life and memories shared. Some are fragmentary by nature of their brevity, while others seem to be incomplete. Often these autobiographical fragm…
At Home in the World? The Ornamental Life of Sailors in Victorian Sailortown
This article explores the representation of British sailortown and merchant sailors onshore in the context of their representation in Victorian writing and contemporary journalism. It proposes that sailortown functioned as an urban setting which offered the traveling or returning sailor an important sense of homeliness—a homeliness that was paradoxically based on the promotion of a collective and worldly belonging. This sense of “worldliness” was…
Maritime Relations
Detailing the lives of ordinary sailors, their families and the role of the sea in Britain's long nineteenth century, Maritime Relations presents a powerful literary history from below. It draws on archival memoirs and logbooks, children's fiction and social surveys, as well as the work of canonical writers such as Gaskell, Dickens, Conrad and Joyce. Maritime Relations highlights the workings of gender, the family, and emotions, with particular a…
Maritime Relations
Absent Sailor, Orphan Child
The rapid expansion of juvenile institutional homes in the late nineteenth century was accompanied by increased provision for the destitute children of British sailors. Though they afforded charitable relief to mariners’ families, these religiously-affiliated institutions also reinforced a patriotic narrative centred on the linked figures of the British sailor and the orphan child. Using as a case-study the Royal Liverpool Seamen’s Orphan Institu…
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