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- catalog abstract ""In this study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilized values of those who remain on the shore. It is an exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12096321.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""In this study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilized values of those who remain on the shore. It is an exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Sea stories. From Homer to Hakluyt ; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton ; Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random ; Britain's sea story -- Jane Austen's sailors. Mr. Midshipman Price ; The sailor as hero ; The navy in Mansfield Park ; Persuasion -- Captain Marryat's nave. William IV, the sailor king ; Frank Mildmay ; Mr. Midshipman easy ; Marryat and his contemporaries -- Dickens and the sea. Dickens's nautical background ; Dombey and son ; David Copperfield ; Dickens and Sir John Franklin -- American sea fiction: Cooper, Poe, Dana. James Fenimore Cooper's The pilot and The red rover -- James Finemore Cooper's Afloat and ashore -- Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; Richard Henry Dana's Two years before the mast -- Herman Melville. Melville's sea stories ; Type and White-jacket ; Moby-Dick ; Billy Budd -- Mid-Victorian maritime fiction. From the Crimean war, 1854-6, to the bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 ; Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's lovers -- The gentleman as sailor: Trollope, Collins, Eliot ; The sailor as gentleman: William Clark Russell -- Adventures at sea. Adventure stories ; Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island ; Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous ; Jack London's The sea-wolf -- Joseph Conrad. The nigger of the 'Narcissus' ; Lord Jim and Heart of darkness ; 'Falk', 'Typhoon' and 'The secret sharer' ; Chance, victory, the shadow line.".
- catalog extent "ix, 214 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0333793579 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave,".
- catalog spatial "English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "823.009/32162 21".
- catalog subject "Naval art and science English-speaking countries.".
- catalog subject "Naval art and science in literature.".
- catalog subject "PR830.S4 P43 2000".
- catalog subject "Sailors in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sea in literature.".
- catalog subject "Sea stories, American History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Sea stories, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Seafaring life in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Sea stories. From Homer to Hakluyt ; Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton ; Tobias Smollett's Roderick Random ; Britain's sea story -- Jane Austen's sailors. Mr. Midshipman Price ; The sailor as hero ; The navy in Mansfield Park ; Persuasion -- Captain Marryat's nave. William IV, the sailor king ; Frank Mildmay ; Mr. Midshipman easy ; Marryat and his contemporaries -- Dickens and the sea. Dickens's nautical background ; Dombey and son ; David Copperfield ; Dickens and Sir John Franklin -- American sea fiction: Cooper, Poe, Dana. James Fenimore Cooper's The pilot and The red rover -- James Finemore Cooper's Afloat and ashore -- Edgar Allan Poe's The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym ; Richard Henry Dana's Two years before the mast -- Herman Melville. Melville's sea stories ; Type and White-jacket ; Moby-Dick ; Billy Budd -- Mid-Victorian maritime fiction. From the Crimean war, 1854-6, to the bombardment of Alexandria, 1882 ; Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's lovers -- The gentleman as sailor: Trollope, Collins, Eliot ; The sailor as gentleman: William Clark Russell -- Adventures at sea. Adventure stories ; Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island ; Rudyard Kipling's Captains Courageous ; Jack London's The sea-wolf -- Joseph Conrad. The nigger of the 'Narcissus' ; Lord Jim and Heart of darkness ; 'Falk', 'Typhoon' and 'The secret sharer' ; Chance, victory, the shadow line.".
- catalog title "Maritime fiction : sailors and the sea in British and American novels, 1719-1917 / John Peck.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".