03084nam 2200637Ia 450 991046303540332120200520144314.01-4529-4784-80-8166-8175-9(CKB)2670000000359242(EBL)1204674(SSID)ssj0000889731(PQKBManifestationID)11452903(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000889731(PQKBWorkID)10877459(PQKB)10006834(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177373(MiAaPQ)EBC1204674(OCoLC)846494695(MdBmJHUP)muse30001(Au-PeEL)EBL1204674(CaPaEBR)ebr10716977(CaONFJC)MIL522858(EXLCZ)99267000000035924220120726d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAntebellum at sea[electronic resource] maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America /Jason BergerMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20121 online resource (328 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-7706-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Bewitching sea -- Fantasies of the common sailor; or, enjoying the knowing Jack Tar -- Tarrying with the national: fantasizing the subject of state -- Tattoos in Typee: rethinking Melville's "cultural grotesque" -- Melville's porno-tropics: re-sexuating pacific encounters -- The crater and the master's reign: Cooper's "floating imperium" -- The sublime abject of democracy: Melville's "floating imperium" -- Epilogue: Incomplete sea.In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change.Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the nineteenth cenSea stories, AmericanHistory and criticismAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismSeafaring life in literatureNational characteristics, American, in literatureElectronic books.Sea stories, AmericanHistory and criticism.American literatureHistory and criticism.Seafaring life in literature.National characteristics, American, in literature.810.9/32Berger Jason1976-1041598MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463035403321Antebellum at sea2465255UNINA