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Sea-brothers : the tradition of American sea fiction from Moby-Dick to the present /

Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with th...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bender, Bert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1988.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The voyage in American sea fiction after the Pilgrim, the Acushnet, and the Beagle
  • Meditation and the life-waters
  • The shipwrecked soul: "The Encantadas": abased sea-stories; Israel Potter; "Benito Cereno"
  • The Jonah feeling: John Marr and other sailors; Billy Budd, sailor (Herman Melville)
  • The experience of brotherhood in "The open boat" (Stephen Crane)
  • Jack London in the tradition of American sea fiction
  • From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1860s and 1870s: Morgan Robertson, Thornton Jenkins Hains, James Brendan Connolly, Arthur Mason, Felix Riesenberg, Bill Adams
  • From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1880s and 1890s: William McFee, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Richard Matthews Hallet, Archie Binns
  • Hemingway: coming to the stream
  • Hemingway's sea men: Harry Morgan, Thomas Hudson and the sea, Santiago
  • Peter Matthiessen and the tradition in modern time
  • Far Tortuga.