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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berger, Jason, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2012.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Sea stories, American > History and criticism.
American literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Seafaring life in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Récits de mer américains > Histoire et critique.
Littérature américaine > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Vie en mer dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature.
Sea stories, American.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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