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The Novel and the Sea.
Examining works across two centuries, this book recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Translation/Transnation Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction: Seafaring Odysseus
- Chapter 1: The Mariner's Craft
- Prudence (Monday, June 11, 1770, 6 PM)
- Sea Legs (Night of June 11, 1770)
- Protocol (Night of June 11-Morning of June 12, 1770)
- Remarkable Occurrences (Noon, June 12, 1770)
- Endeavor (Evening of June 11-Afternoon of June 12, 1770)
- Resolution (Tuesday, June 12, 1770, 9 PM)
- Jury-rigging (Tuesday, June 12, 1770, 10:20 PM-Night of Wednesday, June 13, 1770)
- Collectivity (Wednesday, June 13, 1770)
- Compleat Knowledge (Friday, June 29, 1770)
- Plain Style (Tuesday, August 7, 1770)
- Providence (Thursday, August 16, 1770)
- The Edge (Thursday, August 16, 1770)
- Reckoning (Thursday, August 23, 1770)
- Practical Reason (Seventh Century BC-AD 2010)
- Chapter 2: Remarkable Occurrences at Sea and in the Novel
- Crusoe of York, Mariner
- How to Succeed in Speculation: Sailor and Merchant
- From Remarkable Occurrence into Adventure Novel
- Performability
- Performing Description: Dampier's Sea Lions and Crusoe's Goats
- Imaginary Solutions to Real Problems
- The Cunning Reader
- Cunning Reading: Diverting and Useful
- The Maritime Picaresque: Profiles in Craft
- Craft's Collective: Captain Bob, Quaker William, the Ingenious Cutler, and Many Others
- From Captain to Designer: Robert Boyle
- Craft or Feminine Wiles: Mrs. Villars
- Craft without Performance: Robert Lade
- Warrior Craft: Robert Chevalier, Pirate Captain
- Boldness to Hell: Captain Edward Teach, aka Blackbeard
- The Craft of Freedom: Captain Misson
- Heroines of Craft: Anne Bonny and Mary Read
- Craft and Virtue: Roderick Random
- Chapter 3: Sea Adventure Fiction, 1748-1824?
- Some Conjectures
- Interlude: The Sublimation of the Sea
- Transgressing the Boundaries
- Satan on the Beach
- Things Unattempted Yet in Prose or Rhyme: Milton the Jury-rigger
- The Low Sublime of Piracy
- The Pleasure of an Unknown Navigation
- The Sublime Ocean: What Strikes the Eye
- Dark-heaving, Boundless, Endless, and Sublime
- A Storm Would Have Been Some Consolation
- The Mariner as Uncouth Orpheus: Falconer's Shipwreck
- Turner Was in This Storm
- Chapter 4: Sea Fiction in the Nineteenth Century: Patriots, Pirates, and Supermen
- The Periphery Writes Back
- A Different Course
- Performance of His Duty
- The Only Class of Men Who Nowadays See Anything Like Stirring Adventure
- The Capacity for Work . . . in Moments of Doubt and Danger
- His Love of Liberty May Be Questionable
- We Do Not Like the Author's Domestic Painting So Well
- The Colonial Has Liberated Himself
- A Deep Blood-Red Field: The Price at Which I Am to Be Bought
- The Obscurity of Facts Clouded by Time
- Breathless Interest: From Performing to Gripping Description
- Nautical Novels: Mesty . . . You Are a Man