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The view from the masthead : maritime imagination and antebellum American sea narratives / Hester Blum.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Blum, Hester.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
Sea stories, American.
American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
American literature.
Sailors in literature.
Seafaring life in literature.
Labor in literature.
Self in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
Physical Description:
xi, 271 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2008]
Contents:
Part I. The sea narrative and sailors' literary culture
Part II. Maritime epistemology and crisis.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-256) and index.
ISBN:
9780807831694
0807831697
9780807858554
0807858552
OCLC:
145378611

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