Jonathan Stafford
Biographic Data
| ID | 3683682 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Stafford |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Stafford |
| SIGNATURE | STAFFORD J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
‘Drowning is a very prosaic arrangement’
The introduction of steam propulsion to transnational shipping in the second quarter of the nineteenth century marked a profound infrastructural shift, fundamentally reshaping global mobilities and the cultural imaginaries through which the sea was understood. At the heart of this transformation lay a technophilic confidence in the capacity of steamship infrastructure to overcome the violence and unpredictability of the maritime environment, reco…
Spectacle and Sympathy in the Origin Narratives of Lifesaving at Sea
The early years of the nineteenth century saw an explosion in publications that advocated for lifesaving intervention in the numerous shipwrecks that occurred around Britain's coastline. With a striking frequency, the authors of this literature root the origins of their humanitarian impulses in a distinctive narrative device: the motif of a shipwreck close to shore, witnessed by a crowd of spectators helpless to intervene but united in sympatheti…
A sea view
A sea view
Spectacle and Sympathy in the Origin Narratives of Lifesaving at Sea
The early years of the nineteenth century saw an explosion in publications that advocated for lifesaving intervention in the numerous shipwrecks that occurred around Britain's coastline. With a striking frequency, the authors of this literature root the origins of their humanitarian impulses in a distinctive narrative device: the motif of a shipwreck close to shore, witnessed by a crowd of spectators helpless to intervene but united in sympatheti…
‘Drowning is a very prosaic arrangement’
The introduction of steam propulsion to transnational shipping in the second quarter of the nineteenth century marked a profound infrastructural shift, fundamentally reshaping global mobilities and the cultural imaginaries through which the sea was understood. At the heart of this transformation lay a technophilic confidence in the capacity of steamship infrastructure to overcome the violence and unpredictability of the maritime environment, reco…
Art (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Travel Writing and Literature (2 works) · 19th-century literature (1 work) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work)