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The Novel and the Sea Margaret Cohen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cohen, Margaret, 1958-
- Series:
- Translation/transnation.
- Translation/transnation
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seafaring life in literature.
- Sea stories, English.
- Sailors in literature.
- Naval art and science in literature.
- Adventure stories, English.
- Adventure stories, English--History and criticism.
- Sea stories, English--History and criticism.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (328 p.) : 30 halftones.
- Place of Publication:
- Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Examining works across two centuries, this book recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination.
- Contents:
- Introduction: seafaring odysseus
- The mariner's craft
- Remarkable occurrences at sea and in the novel
- Sea adventure fiction, 1748-1824?
- Sea fiction in the nineteenth century: patriots, pirates, and supermen
- Sea fiction beyond the seas.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [273]-289) and index.
- Originally published: 2010.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780691155982
- 0691155984
- 9781400836482
- 1400836484
- OCLC:
- 1251443518
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