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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jason Berger |
ISBN: | 9780816677061 0816677069 9780816677078 0816677077 |
OCLC Number: | 788268261 |
Description: | x, 338 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Introduction: Bewitching sea -- Fantasies of the common sailor; or, enjoying the knowing Jack Tar -- Tarrying with the national: fantasizing the subject of state -- Tattoos in Typee: rethinking Melville's "cultural grotesque" -- Melville's porno-tropics: re-sexuating pacific encounters -- The crater and the master's reign: Cooper's "floating imperium" -- The sublime abject of democracy: Melville's "floating imperium" -- Epilogue: Incomplete sea. |
Responsibility: | Jason Berger. |
Abstract:
Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the 19th century negotiated its own tenuous progress by portraying how a wide range of maritime stories lays bare disturbing experiences of the new.
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