| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 237 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction : Britain and the sea / Bernhard Klein -- 1. Who owns the sea? / James Muldoon -- 2. Orientation as a paradigm of maritime modernity / Ulrich Kinzel -- 3. Satan's ocean voyage and 18th-century seafaring trade / Anne-Julia Zwierlein -- 4. Class war and the albatross : the politics of ships as social space and The rime of the ancient mariner / Sarah Moss -- 5. Walter Scott's The pirate : imperialism, nationalism and bourgeois values / Arnold Schmidt -- 6. Death by water : the theory and practice of shipwrecking / Ina Habermann -- 7. The sea is history : historicizing the Homeric sea in Victorian passages / Tobias Döring -- 8. 'As I wuz a-rolling down the highway one morn' : fictions of the 19th-century English sailortown / Valerie Burton -- 9. Conrad's crews revisited / Jürgen Kramer -- 10. Cabin'd yet unconfined : heroic masculinity in English seafaring novels / Susan Bassnett -- 11. The sea is slavery : Middle Passage narratives / Carl Pedersen -- 12. Cinematographic seas : metaphors of crossing and shipwreck on the big screen (1990-2001) / Patrizia A. Muscogiuri |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- History and criticism.
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Sea in literature.
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Sea stories, English -- History and criticism
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Seafaring life -- Great Britain -- History
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Naval art and science in literature.
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Seafaring life in literature.
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Sailors in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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English literature
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Naval art and science in literature
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Sailors in literature
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Sea in literature
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Sea stories, English
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Seafaring life
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Seafaring life in literature
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Great Britain
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Klein, Bernhard, 1963- editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351936569 |
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1351936565 |
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9781315255279 |
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1315255278 |
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