Sea and Nineteenth-Century Anglophone Literary Culture

This collection of essays by scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The introduction offers three critical lenses through which to read nineteen

List of contents

Introduction: The Hungry Ocean Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas 1. William Falconer and the Empire of the Deep Siobhan Carroll 2. Scientists Writing and Knowing the Ocean Helen M. Rozwadowski 3. Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researchers Hester Blum 4. Keeping up with the Morrells: Sailors and the Construction of American Identity in Antebellum Sea Narratives Amy Parsons 5. "The Perils of Crossings": Nineteenth-Century Navigations of City and Sea Sophie Gilmartin 6. Seeing through Water: The Paintings of Zach Pritchard Margaret Cohen 7. Pacific Ocean Flowers: Colonial Seaweed Albums Molly Duggins 8. The Sea as Green Fields: Calenture and Wordsworth's Rural Ocean Frank Mabee 9. Melville's "Brit": An Etymological and Ecocritical Chomp into Moby-DickRichard J. King 10. The Ocean as Quasi-Object, or Ecocriticism and the Doll from the Deep Patricia Yaeger

About the author

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA.

Martha Elena Rojas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

Summary

This collection of essays by scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic during this period of global exploration and colonial consolidation. The introduction offers three critical lenses through which to read nineteen

Product details

• Authors: Steve (St. John''''s University Mentz, Steve Rojas Mentz
• Assisted by: Steve Mentz (Editor), Mentz Steve (Editor), Martha Elena Rojas (Editor), Rojas Martha Elena (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367881924
• ISBN: 978-0-367-88192-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Ashgate Series in Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; English, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, maritime history, Colonialism & imperialism, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Colonialism and imperialism