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
Main Author: Berger, Jason, 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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 conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change. Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the nineteenth cen.
Physical Description:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780816681754

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