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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/44467473 Title: Maritime fiction : sailors and the sea in British and American novels, 1719-1917 Author: John Peck Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001. ISBN/ISSN: 0333793579 9780333793572 OCLC:44467473

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Maritime fiction : sailors and the sea in British and American novels, 1719-1917

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Maritime fiction : sailors and the sea in British and American novels, 1719-1917

Author:	John Peck
Publisher:	Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2001.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	"In this study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilized values of those who remain on the shore. It is an exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea."--BOOK JACKET. Read more...
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ISBN:	0333793579 9780333793572
OCLC Number:	44467473
Description:	ix, 214 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents:	Sea stories. From Homer to Hakluyt ; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton ; Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random ; Britain's sea story -- Jane Austen's sailors. Mr. Midshipman Price ; The sailor as hero ; The navy in Mansfield Park ; Persuasion -- Captain Marryat's nave. William IV, the sailor king ; Frank Mildmay ; Mr. Midshipman easy ; Marryat and his contemporaries -- Dickens and the sea. Dickens's nautical background ; Dombey and son ; David Copperfield ; Dickens and Sir John Franklin -- American sea fiction: Cooper, Poe, Dana. James Fenimore Cooper's The pilot and The red rover -- James Finemore Cooper's Afloat and ashore -- Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; Richard Henry Dana's Two years before the mast -- Herman Melville. Melville's sea stories ; Type and White-jacket ; Moby-Dick ; Billy Budd -- Mid-Victorian maritime fiction. From the Crimean war, 1854-6, to the bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 ; Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's lovers -- The gentleman as sailor: Trollope, Collins, Eliot ; The sailor as gentleman: William Clark Russell -- Adventures at sea. Adventure stories ; Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island ; Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous ; Jack London's The sea-wolf -- Joseph Conrad. The nigger of the 'Narcissus' ; Lord Jim and Heart of darkness ; 'Falk', 'Typhoon' and 'The secret sharer' ; Chance, victory, the shadow line.
Responsibility:	John Peck.
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