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Antebellum at sea : maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America / / Jason Berger



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Autore: Berger Jason <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Antebellum at sea : maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America / / Jason Berger Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (328 p.)
Disciplina: 810.9/32
Soggetto topico: Sea stories, American - History and criticism
American literature - 19th century - History and criticism
Seafaring life in literature
National characteristics, American, in literature
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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.
Sommario/riassunto: 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 cen
Titolo autorizzato: Antebellum at sea  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4529-4784-8
0-8166-8175-9
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910817663003321
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