Bert Bender

Sea-Brothers

The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present
Illustrator: Angell, Tony

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Anyone interested in the role that adventure fiction in general, and sea fiction in particular, has played in injecting life into American literature, will find good reading, well documented scholarship, and some strong-stated theses in Sea-Brothers."-American Studies International "The study offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature."-London Review of Books

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Global Center for Resiliency & Wellbeing
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 161mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780812213393
• ISBN-10: 0812213394
• Artikelnr.: 22953028

Autorenporträt

Bert Bender. Illustrations by Tony Angell

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: The Sea, and the Blue Water of It
Acknowledgments
Note on Texts
Chapter 1. The Voyage in American Sea Fiction after the Pilgrim, the
Acushnet, and the Beagle
Chapter 2. Meditation and the Life-Waters
Chapter 3. The Shipwrecked Soul
—"The Encantadas": "Abased" Sea Stories
—Israel Potter
—"Benito Cereno"
Chapter 4. The Jonah Feeling
—John Marr and Other Sailors
—Billy Budd, Sailor
Chapter 5. The Experience of Brotherhood in "The Open Boat"
Chapter 6. Jack London in the Tradition of American Sea Fiction
Chapter 7. From Sail to Steam: Sailor-Writers of the 1860s and 1870s
—Morgan Robertson
—Thornton Jenkins Hains
—James Brendan Connolly
—Arthur Mason
—Felix Riesenberg
—Bill Adams
Chapter 8. From Sail to Steam: Sailor-Writers of the 1880s and 1890s
—William McFee
—Lincoln Ross Colcord
—Richard Matthews Hallet
—Archie Binns
Chapter 9. Hemingway: Coming to the Stream
Chapter 10. Hemingway's Sea Men
—Harry Morgan
—Thomas Hudson and the Sea
—Santiago
Chapter 11. Peter Matthiessen and the Tradition in Modern Time
Chapter 12. Far Tortuga
Photographs
Notes
Bibliography
Chronology
Index