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Fictions of the Sea : Critical Perspectives on the Ocean in British Literature and Culture.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Klein, Bernhard
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Britain and the Sea
  • 1 Who Owns the Sea?
  • 2 Orientation as a Paradigm of Maritime Modernity
  • 3 Satan's Ocean Voyage and 18th-Century Seafaring Trade
  • 4 Class War and the Albatross: The Politics of Ships as Social Space and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • 5 Walter Scott's The Pirate: Imperialism, Nationalism and Bourgeois Values
  • 6 Death by Water: The Theory and Practice of Shipwrecking
  • 7 The Sea Is History: Historicizing the Homeric Sea in Victorian Passages
  • 8 'As I wuz a-rolling down the Highway one morn': Fictions of the 19th-century English Sailortown
  • 9 Conrad's Crews Revisited
  • 10 Cabin'd Yet Unconfíned: Heroic Masculinity in English Seafaring Novels
  • 11 The Sea Is Slavery: Middle Passage Narratives
  • 12 Cinematographic Seas: Metaphors of Crossing and Shipwreck on the Big Screen (1990-2001)
  • Select Bibliography
  • Index.