Title: Writing the seaman's tale in law and literature : Dana, Melville, and Justice Story /
Authors: Mudgett, Kathryn.
Publisher: AMS Press,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Dana, Richard Henry,; Melville, Herman,; Story, Joseph,; Dana, Richard Henry,; American literature History and criticism; Sailors in literature.; Law and literature.; Maritime law.
Contents: Introduction: A stream of living blood -- Our craft is a lie -- The rough inmates of a ship at sea : the law's story of seaman -- Deeds of dark and barbarous cruelty : the case of Nichols and Couch -- A voice in the forecastle : Dana's Two years before the mast -- "Quite a genteel figure, at least for a forecastle" : Melville's Redburn -- The history of an obsolete barbarism : White-jacket and the articles of war -- Practicing a lawful rigor : Billy Budd and Captain Vere -- Conclusion: An outrage on the rights of the people.