America and the sea : a literary history

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Label

America and the sea : a literary history

Title remainder

a literary history

Statement of responsibility

edited by Haskell Springer

Contributor

• Springer, Haskell S

Subject

• America -- Discovery and exploration | Historiography
• America -- In literature
• American literature -- History and criticism
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Engels
• Explorers in literature
• Geographical discoveries in literature
• Letterkunde
• Literatur
• Meer (Motiv)
• Ocean travel in literature
• Sea poetry, American -- History and criticism
• Sea stories, American -- History and criticism
• Seafaring life in literature
• USA
• Zeeën

Language

eng

Summary

• 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

Cataloging source

DLC

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PS169.S42

LC item number

A49 1995

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography