The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Blum, Hester

 
9780807858554: The View from the Masthead: Maritime Imagination and Antebellum American Sea Narratives [Idioma Inglés]
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0807858552 ISBN 13: 9780807858554
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their contributions have been little recognized in literary history, seamen were important figures in the nineteenth-century American literary sphere. In the first book to explore their unique contribution to literary culture, Hester Blum examines the first-person narratives of working sailors, from little-known sea tales to more famous works by Herman Melville, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, and Richard Henry Dana.

In their narratives, sailors wrote about how their working lives coexisted with--indeed, mutually drove--their imaginative lives. Even at leisure, they were always on the job site. Blum analyzes seamen's libraries, Barbary captivity narratives, naval memoirs, writings about the Galapagos Islands, Melville's sea vision, and the crisis of death and burial at sea. She argues that the extent of sailors' literacy and the range of their reading were unusual for a laboring class, belying the popular image of Jack Tar as merely a swaggering, profane, or marginal figure. As Blum demonstrates, seamen's narratives propose a method for aligning labor and contemplation that has broader applications for the study of American literature and history.

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Hester Blum is assistant professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0807858552
ISBN 13 
9780807858554
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
286
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