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.
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.
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.
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.
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