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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Bender, Bert. Sea-brothers. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1988 (OCoLC)575608118 |
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| 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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