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 articulated through aspects of ornamental material culture ranging from sailortown's visual display of nautical and transnational symbols, to the interior arrangements of places of hospitality such as Sailors’ Homes, to sailors’ own forms of portable property. By thinking more closely about the relationship between the domestic and the global in the context of maritime culture, the article proposes that the ornamental features of the seafarer's life, in all its diverse manifestations, serves to reveal the paradoxes and rich ambivalences that underscore the situation of the nineteenth-century sailor onshore.

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世界之家？维多利亚水手镇水手的观赏生活

本文探讨了英国水手城和陆上商船水手在维多利亚时代写作和当代新闻业中的代表性。它提出，水手城作为一个城市环境，为旅行或返回的水手提供了一种重要的家常感——一种自相矛盾地基于促进集体和世俗归属感的家常。这种“世俗”感体现在装饰性物质文化的各个方面，从水手城对航海和跨国符号的视觉展示，到水手之家等招待场所的内部布置，再到水手自己的便携式财产形式。通过在海洋文化背景下更仔细地思考国内与全球的关系，