Maritime Fiction
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Maritime Fiction

Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917

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Maritime Fiction

Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917

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In this important new study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilised values of those who remain on the shore. The first comprehensive discussion of its subject, Maritime Fiction is an original exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2001
ISBN
9780333985212
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Letteratura generale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Sea Stories
  6. 2 Jane Austen’s Sailors
  7. 3 Captain Marryat’s Navy
  8. 4 Dickens and the Sea
  9. 5 American Sea Fiction: Cooper, Poe, Dana
  10. 6 Herman Melville
  11. 7 Mid-Victorian Maritime Fiction
  12. 8 Adventures at Sea
  13. 9 Joseph Conrad
  14. Notes
  15. Index