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Subtitle: maritime imagination and antebellum American sea narratives
By: by Hester Blum.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807831694; 9780807858554
Subjects: Sea stories, American -- History and criticism; American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Sailors in literature; Seafaring life in literature; Labor in literature; Self in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. The sea narrative and sailors' literary culture; title: Part II. Maritime epistemology and crisis.