Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 269 pages)
ISBN:
9780203079683
,
9781136161537
,
9781136161483
,
9781136161520
Serie:
Routledge interdisciplinary perspectives on literature 19
Inhalt:
1. Introduction / Carl Thompson -- 2. The capsized self : sea navigation, shipwrecks and escapes from drowning in southern Buddhist narrative and art / Sarah Shaw -- 3. 'Describe nunc tempestatem' : sea storm and shipwreck type scenes in ancient literature / Boris Dunsch -- 4. The sunken voice : depth and submersion in two early modern Portuguese accounts of maritime peril / Josiah Blackmore -- 5. God's storms : shipwreck and the meanings of ocean in early modern England and America / Steve Mentz -- 6. Shipwreck and the forging of the commercial nation : the 1786 wreck of the Halsewell / Carl Thompson -- 7. Shipwreck in French and British visual art, 1700-1842 : Vernet, Northcote, Gericault, and Turner / Christine Riding -- 8. Shipwrecks on the streets : maritime disaster and the broadside ballad tradition in nineteenth-century Britain and Ireland / Kirsty Reid -- 9. What lies beneath : the submarine shipwreck in Anglo-American culture, 1880-1920 / Stephen Donovan -- 10. Molly Brown and the Titanic : the shipwrecked woman in U.S. culture / Robin Miskolcze -- 11. Shipwrecking the world's 'wretched refuse' : spectres of Neocolonial exclusion in Carl de Souza's Ceux qu'on jette a la mer and Charles Masson's Droit du sol / Veronique Bragard -- 12. Wrecked in the shallows : Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Michael Titlestad -- 13. Salvaging a romantic trope : the conceptual resurrection of shipwreck in recent art practice / Emma Cocker.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (237-253) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780415643627
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781138547445
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780415643627
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9780203079683
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