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The View from the Masthead : Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blum, Hester.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
- Labor in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Sailors in literature.
- Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
- Seafaring life in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Sea stories, American--History and criticism--19th century.
- Sea stories, American.
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Local Subjects:
- American literature--19th century--History and criticism.
- Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.
- Labor in literature.
- National characteristics, American, in literature.
- Sailors in literature.
- Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
- Seafaring life in literature.
- Self in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (286 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. THE SEA NARRATIVE AND SAILORS' LITERARY CULTURE; 1. The Literati of the Galley; 2. Barbary Captivity and Intra-Atlantic Print Culture; 3. Naval Memoirs and the Literary Marketplace; PART II. MARITIME EPISTEMOLOGY AND CRISIS; 4. The Sea Eye; 5. The Galapagos and the Evolution of the Maritime Imagination; 6. From Preface to Postscript: Death and Burial at Sea; Afterword; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- ISBN:
- 9798890881380
- 9781469606552
- 1469606550
- OCLC:
- 823382537
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