Antebellum at Sea : Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America /

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In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in con...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Berger, Jason, 1976-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Seafaring life in literature.
Sea stories, American.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
American literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Vie en mer dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Recits de mer americains > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Sea stories, American > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Bewitching sea
  • Fantasies of the common sailor; or, enjoying the knowing Jack Tar
  • Tarrying with the national: fantasizing the subject of state
  • Tattoos in Typee: rethinking Melville's "cultural grotesque"
  • Melville's porno-tropics: re-sexuating pacific encounters
  • The crater and the master's reign: Cooper's "floating imperium"
  • The sublime abject of democracy: Melville's "floating imperium"
  • Epilogue: Incomplete sea.

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