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Sea-brothers : the tradition of American sea fiction from Moby-Dick to the present

Author: Bert Bender
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1988.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
Bender, Bert.
Sea-brothers.
Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1988
(OCoLC)575608118
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Bert Bender
ISBN: 0812281241 9780812281248
OCLC Number: 18069990
Notes: Includes index.
Description: xiv, 267 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: The voyage in American sea fiction after the Pilgrim, the Acushnet, and the Beagle --
Meditation and the life-waters --
The shipwrecked soul: "The Encantadas": abased sea-stories; Israel Potter; "Benito Cereno" --
The Jonah feeling: John Marr and other sailors; Billy Budd, sailor (Herman Melville) --
The experience of brotherhood in "The open boat" (Stephen Crane) --
Jack London in the tradition of American sea fiction --
From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1860s and 1870s: Morgan Robertson, Thornton Jenkins Hains, James Brendan Connolly, Arthur Mason, Felix Riesenberg, Bill Adams --
From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1880s and 1890s: William McFee, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Richard Matthews Hallet, Archie Binns --
Hemingway: coming to the stream --
Hemingway's sea men: Harry Morgan, Thomas Hudson and the sea, Santiago --
Peter Matthiessen and the tradition in modern time --
Far Tortuga.
Responsibility: Bert Bender ; drawings by Tony Angell.

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