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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460606903321

Autore

Mentz Steve

Titolo

Shipwreck Modernity [[electronic resource] ] : Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University of Minnesota Press, 2015

ISBN

1-4529-4555-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Two Prefaces; Theoretical Preface: Epochal Claims and the Age of Shipwreck; Narrative Preface: Ulysses and the Global Ecology; 1. The Wet and the Dry: Shipwreck Hermeneutics; 2. Angry Gods: Theologies of the Ocean; 3. Isle of Tempests: Bermuda in the Early Modern Imagination; Interchapter: Pearls That Were His Eyes; 4. Metis: Jeremy Roch; 5. Metis: Edward Barlow; Interchapter: Philosopher at the Masthead; 6. "We Split": Sea Poetry and Maritime Crisis; 7. Castaways: Surviving Disaster; Three Short Epilogues; The Bright Light of Shipwreck; The Bookfish

Seven Shipwrecked Ecological TruthsAcknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z