Laurie Ellinghausen

Ships of State

Literature and the Seaman's Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain

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Produktbeschreibung

Ships of State analyses representations of seaborne labour across popular literary genres during the early years of British Empire. 

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9781487529475
• ISBN-10: 1487529473
• Artikelnr.: 69231775

Autorenporträt

Laurie Ellinghausen is a professor of English at the University of Missouri, Kansas City.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Literature and the Seaman’s Labour in Proto-Imperial Britain
1. "Lords of the harbors": English Fishermen and the Newfoundland Colony
2. "Their labour doth returne rich golden gaine": Fishmongers’ Shows and
the Fisherman’s Labour in Early Modern London
3. "Hereditary Sloth" and the Labour of Empire in Shakespeare’s
Mediterranean
4. "A wife or friend at e’ery port": The Common Sailor in the Ballads of
Early British Empire
Conclusion: The "painefull Sea-Man" of Imperial Britain
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index