The sea in the literary imagination : global perspectives This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents it emphasizes the universality of human experience with the sea while focusing on literature that spans a millennium stretching from medieval romance to the twenty first century reimagining of classic literary texts in film. These fresh essays engage in discussions of literature from the UK the USA India Chile Turkey Spain Japan Colombia and the Caribbean. Scholars of maritime literature will find the collection interesting for the unique ins Introduction Ben P. Robertson Ekaterina V. Kobeleva Shannon W. Thompson and Katona D. Weddle European Literature: the Hazards of the Sea Floating Ideas: Memory and the Sea in Medieval Romances Jamie McKinstry Ocean of Troubles: Hazards of Seafaring in the Court Records of the House of Trade in Seville in the Late Sixteenth Century: the Sea as Seen from Juridical Literature A.B. Fernández Castro It seems to float ever forever : the Dispersing Ocean in Valperga and Prometheus Unbound Lucy Johnson The Problem of Longitude : Unplottable Subjects the Imaginary Pacific and Queer Seas in Joseph Conrads the Planter of Malata Alice M. Kelly Asian Literature: Seascapes and the Environment Ocean as a Space of Maturation in Nagai Kafūs Critique of Modernity G.M. Follaco Women at the Helm: Manasa Mangal Kavya in Perspective Nirojita Guha Land Ethic and Human Sea Relations in Yașar Kemals The Sea Crossed Fisherman and Sait Faik Abasiyaniks Sinağrit Baba and Death of the Dülger Erkin Kiryaman South American Literature: the Unknowability of the Sea Travelers Tales: the Sea and Memories of Exile in Marjorie Agosíns Chile Elena M. De Costa Unseen Sea and the Sublime: Some cognitive Aesthetic Conceptualizations in Modernist and Avant Garde Latin American Poetry Juan Ignacio Muñoz Zapata Transforming the White Whale in Monique Roffeys Archipelago Danette DiMarco North American Literature: Melville and the Sea Fiction and Verity: Textured Narratives in Herman Melvilles Mardi and a Voyage Thither Kelvin Beliele Mermaids as Exotic Others in Melvilles South Sea Fiction Hanna Straß Senol Driving Home Yarns: Oceanic Language and Deconstruction in Melvilles Moby Dick Megan Barnes Spatiality at Sea: the Vortex in Herman Melvilles Moby Dick Alexandra Meany North American Literature: Transcendentalism Modernism and the Sea Picturing the Ocean Wilderness: Henry David Thoreaus Cape Cod and the Meaning of Progress Kathleen Healey It wasnt any good diving unless you had a big hammer : Psychoanalyzing Hermingways After the Storm Paul E. Blom Ship of Fools and the Purge of Rejects Mongia Besbes Global Literature: Popular Culture and the Sea Young Adult Cli Fi and the Risen Sea Tara Moore Self Actualization Control and the Kraken: Literary and Film Personalities who Wield Power through a Notorious Sea Monster Rachel L. Carazo Roles of Sea Monsters and Consumption: Retelling Jane Austen Re Sensing the Sea and Creating Sea Sensibility Rachel L. Carazo Literature and the Sea: Final Thoughts Literature of the Sea: Lessons Learned Paul Guajardo.