Shipwreck Modernity : Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719 /

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This title engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mentz, Steve
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Shipwrecks in literature.
Shipwreck survival in literature.
Literature and society.
Ecology in literature.
Civilization, Modern, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
Litterature et societe > Histoire.
Naufrages dans la litterature.
Literature and society > History.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:This title engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages).
ISBN:9781452945552

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