1st Edition
The Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
10 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
216 Pages
10 Color & 9 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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During the nineteenth century, British and American naval supremacy spanned the globe. The importance of transoceanic shipping and trade to the European-based empire and her rapidly expanding former colony ensured that the ocean became increasingly important to popular literary culture in both nations. This collection of ten essays by expert scholars in transatlantic British and American... Read more
Introduction: The Hungry Ocean Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas 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
Biography
Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA.
Martha Elena Rojas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, USA.
