Myra C. Glenn

Jack Tar's Story

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Produktbeschreibung

Jack Tar's Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780521193689
• ISBN-10: 0521193680
• Artikelnr.: 30211588

Autorenporträt

Myra C. Glenn is Professor of American History at Elmira College. She is the author of Campaigns against Corporal Punishment: Prisoners, Sailors, Women, and Children in Antebellum America and Thomas K. Beecher: Minister to a Changing America, 1824-1900. Her work has appeared in numerous professional journals, and she is the recipient of two Fulbright lecture awards.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: why study antebellum sailor narratives?; 1. Stories of
escape, freedom, and captivity: seaman authors recall their early years; 2.
Manhood, nationalism, and sailor narratives of British captivity and the
War of 1812; 3. Exploring the meaning of revolution in the Americas: sailor
narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence; 4.
Defending one's rights as a man and an American citizen: sailor narratives
as exposés of flogging; 5. Straddling conflicting notions of manhood:
sailor narratives as stories of roistering and religious conversion;
Afterword.