Antebellum at sea
Subtitle: maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America
By: Jason Berger
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780816677061; 9780816677078
Subjects: American Sea stories; Seafaring life in literature; History and criticism; American literature; National characteristics, American, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Bewitching sea; title: Fantasies of the common sailor; or, enjoying the knowing Jack Tar; title: Tarrying with the national: fantasizing the subject of state; title: Tattoos in Typee: rethinking Melville's "cultural grotesque"; title: Melville's porno-tropics: re-sexuating pacific encounters; title: The crater and the master's reign: Cooper's "floating imperium"; title: The sublime abject of democracy: Melville's "floating imperium"; title: Epilogue: Incomplete sea.