EAN: 9783860573471

THE SEA AND THE AMERICAN IMAGINATION KARTONIERT...

The Sea and the American Imagination brings together a group of renowned scholars and writers
whose contributions attest the ubiquity of the sea in American literature and culture. Writing
from a decidedly transatlantic perspective  the 16 authors take a fresh look at both the
historical conditions and aesthetic modes by which the sea is wed to the American imagination.
The topics of the essays collected here range from Cotton Mather's biblically encoded
narratives of Wonderful Sea Deliverances to the more profane yet no less symbolic shipwrecks in
the works of Norris  London  and Crane  from Anne Bradstreet's contemplations of the sea to
seaward visions in American women's writing of the nineteenth and twentieth century  from Sarah
Josepha Hale's utopian rewriting of the crossing to the New World in her 1853 novel Liberia to
the reimagining of the first encounter for the 1992 Columbiad  from Hawthorne's and Melville's
critical assessment of modern naval warfare to a reassessment - one hundred years later - of
Slocum's low-tech  single-handed voyage around the world  and from Thoreau's meditations by the
sea to the use of sea metaphors in postmodern fiction.

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