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- catalog abstract "This is the first literary history of the United States to explore exclusively the presence of the sea in American writing. A multiauthor work, it covers the periods and genres that make up our national literature as it considers the ubiquity of nautical symbols, images, and figurative language in addition to expressions of the sea experience itself. While this book situates the literature within American history, particularly maritime history, a chapter on hymns, chanteys, and sea songs as well as an annotated portfolio of American seascape art expand and enrich the literary and cultural contexts. The book's fourteen chapters consider the written presence of the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico, and also move inland to address the literature of the Great Lakes. They reveal the importance of the sea in works by women, African Americans, and Native Americans - which is one aspect of the book's special considerations not only of race and gender but also of genre, religion, class, audience, aesthetics, tradition, and innovation. Written in a style accessible to a broad, diversely educated audience, and featuring extensive bibliographies essential to further reading and research, America and the Sea is a unique work on an abiding presence in our cultural consciousness. In addition, its collaborative scholarship seeks to provide wider historical and cultural frameworks for understanding texts, enlarging traditional canons, and making strong use of cross-disciplinary study.".
- catalog contributor b6580134.
- catalog coverage "America Discovery and exploration Historiography.".
- catalog coverage "America In literature.".
- catalog created "c1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "c1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1995.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-384) and index.".
- catalog description "The book's fourteen chapters consider the written presence of the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Gulf of Mexico, and also move inland to address the literature of the Great Lakes. They reveal the importance of the sea in works by women, African Americans, and Native Americans - which is one aspect of the book's special considerations not only of race and gender but also of genre, religion, class, audience, aesthetics, tradition, and innovation. Written in a style accessible to a broad, diversely educated audience, and featuring extensive bibliographies essential to further reading and research, America and the Sea is a unique work on an abiding presence in our cultural consciousness. In addition, its collaborative scholarship seeks to provide wider historical and cultural frameworks for understanding texts, enlarging traditional canons, and making strong use of cross-disciplinary study.".
- catalog description "The sea, the land, the literature / Haskell Springer -- The colonial era / Donald P. Wharton -- The revolutionary and federal periods / Donald P. Wharton -- Cooper and his contemporaries / Hugh Egan -- Personal narratives, journals, and diaries / John Samson -- Hymns, chanteys, and sea songs / Robert D. Madison -- Poetry in the mainstream / Joseph Flibbert -- Herman Melville / Haskell Springer, Douglas Robillard -- American seascape art / Roger B. Stein -- Fiction by seamen after Melville / Bert Bender -- Great Lakes maritime fiction / Victoria Brehm -- African-American literature / Elizabeth Schultz -- Twentieth-century poetry / Dennis Welland -- Modernist prose and its antecedents / Joseph DeFalco -- Prose since 1960 / Dennis Berthold.".
- catalog description "This is the first literary history of the United States to explore exclusively the presence of the sea in American writing. A multiauthor work, it covers the periods and genres that make up our national literature as it considers the ubiquity of nautical symbols, images, and figurative language in addition to expressions of the sea experience itself. While this book situates the literature within American history, particularly maritime history, a chapter on hymns, chanteys, and sea songs as well as an annotated portfolio of American seascape art expand and enrich the literary and cultural contexts.".
- catalog extent "xi, 414 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0820316512 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "c1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Athens : University of Georgia Press,".
- catalog spatial "America Discovery and exploration Historiography.".
- catalog spatial "America In literature.".
- catalog subject "810.9/32162 20".
- catalog subject "American literature History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Explorers in literature.".
- catalog subject "Geographical discoveries in literature.".
- catalog subject "Ocean travel in literature.".
- catalog subject "PS169.S42 A49 1994".
- catalog subject "PS169.S42 A49 1995".
- catalog subject "Sea poetry, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Sea stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Seafaring life in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The sea, the land, the literature / Haskell Springer -- The colonial era / Donald P. Wharton -- The revolutionary and federal periods / Donald P. Wharton -- Cooper and his contemporaries / Hugh Egan -- Personal narratives, journals, and diaries / John Samson -- Hymns, chanteys, and sea songs / Robert D. Madison -- Poetry in the mainstream / Joseph Flibbert -- Herman Melville / Haskell Springer, Douglas Robillard -- American seascape art / Roger B. Stein -- Fiction by seamen after Melville / Bert Bender -- Great Lakes maritime fiction / Victoria Brehm -- African-American literature / Elizabeth Schultz -- Twentieth-century poetry / Dennis Welland -- Modernist prose and its antecedents / Joseph DeFalco -- Prose since 1960 / Dennis Berthold.".
- catalog title "America and the sea : a literary history / edited by Haskell Springer.".
- catalog type "text".