The sea and nineteenth-century Anglophone literary culture / edited by Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas.

The sea and nineteenth-century Anglophone literary culture
Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781315553092 (e-book : PDF)
9781317016588 (e-book: Mobi)
9781472479655 (hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yayın Bilgisi
London ; New York : Routledge, 2017.
Fiziksel Niteleme
1 online resource
Dizi
Ashgate series in nineteenth-century transatlantic studies
Genel Not
"With one exception, the essays first originated in a three-day conference held in 2011 at the John Carter Brown Library entitled, The Hungry Ocean: Literature and the Maritime Environment"--Introduction.
İçindekiler Notu
1. William Falconer and the Empire of the deep / Siobhan Carroll -- 2. Scientists writing and knowing the ocean / Helen M. Rozwadowski -- 3. Charles Francis Hall's Arctic researchers / Hester Blum -- 4. Keeping up with the Morrells : sailors and the construction of American identity in antebellum sea narratives / Amy Parsons -- 5. "The perils of crossings" : nineteenth-century navigations of City and sea / Sophie Gilmartin -- 6. Seeing through water : the paintings of Zach Pritchard / Margaret Cohen -- 7. Pacific Ocean flowers : Colonial seaweed albums / Molly Duggins -- 8. The sea as green fields : calenture and Wordsworth's Rural ocean / Frank Mabee -- 9. Melville's "Brit": an etymological and ecocritical chomp into Moby-Dick / Richard J. King -- 10. The ocean as quasi-object, or, Ecocriticism and the doll from the deep / Patricia Yaeger.
Konu
Sea in literature.
English literature __ 19th century __ History and criticism.
American literature __ 19th century __ History and criticism.
Seafaring life in literature.
Ocean travel in literature.
Navigation in literature.
National characteristics, English, in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
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