Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- Chapter I. Dread Neptune's Wild Unsocial Sea. THE SEA IN AMERICAN LITERATURE BEFORE 1820 -- Chapter II. The Tempestuous Ocean for a World. COOPER'S EARLY NAUTICAL ROMANCES -- Chapter III. The Dangers of the Deep. THE WORK OF COOPER'S CONTEMPORARIES, 1820-1835 -- Chapter IV. The Light and the Dark Together. THE SEA NOVELS OF COOPER'S MIDDLE PERIOD -- Chapter V. An Ocean Unapproachable and Unknown. THE WORK OF COOPER'S CONTEMPORARIES, 1835-1850 -- Chapter VI. The Voyage of Life. COOPER'S LAST SEA FICTION -- Chapter VII. A Literary Leviathan. EPILOGUE -- Works Cited -- Notes -- Index
