The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Coleridge

Innovation of existing genre norms and conventions is an important fixture in literature from the late-17th through mid-19th centuries. A time characterized by much societal change, as literature grew available to the masses, more women became...

The ocean has provided a landscape for the unknown for centuries. Prior to the mapping of the world at the end of the 1700s, little was known of its vastness and conditions. Coleridge capitalizes on this notion of the ocean as a treacherous,...