Sea-Brothers : : The Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present / / Bert Bender.
Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (286 p.) :; 33 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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
- Chapter 4. The Jonah Feeling
- 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
- Chapter 8. From Sail to Steam: Sailor-Writers of the 1880s and 1890s
- Chapter 9. Hemingway: Coming to the Stream
- Chapter 10. Hemingway's Sea Men
- Chapter 11. Peter Matthiessen and the Tradition in Modern Time
- Chapter 12. Far Tortuga
- Photographs
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Chronology
- Index