LEADER 03050nam 2200625Ia 450 001 9910786957303321 005 20230801230651.0 010 $a1-4529-4784-8 010 $a0-8166-8175-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000359242 035 $a(EBL)1204674 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000889731 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11452903 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000889731 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10877459 035 $a(PQKB)10006834 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177373 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1204674 035 $a(OCoLC)846494695 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse30001 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1204674 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10716977 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL522858 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000359242 100 $a20120726d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAntebellum at sea$b[electronic resource] $emaritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America /$fJason Berger 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniversity of Minnesota Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (328 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7706-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aIn 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 cen 606 $aSea stories, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aSeafaring life in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, American, in literature 615 0$aSea stories, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aSeafaring life in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, American, in literature. 676 $a810.9/32 700 $aBerger$b Jason$f1976-$01468265 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910786957303321 996 $aAntebellum at sea$93755654 997 $aUNINA