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  1. Antebellum at Sea
    Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America
    Author: Berger, Jason
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early... more

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    In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change.Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the nineteenth cen...

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780816677061; 9780816681754 (Sekundärausgabe)
    RVK Categories: HT 1691
    Scope: 328 p.
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  2. Antebellum at sea
    maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America
    Author: Berger, Jason
    Published: c2012
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780816677061; 0816677069; 9780816677078; 0816677077; 9780816681754
    Subjects: Sea stories, American / History and criticism; American literature / 19th century / History and criticism; Seafaring life in literature; National characteristics, American, in literature; Literatur; Meer <Motiv>
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  3. Antebellum at Sea
    Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America
    Author: Berger, Jason
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis

    In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early... more

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    In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change.Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the nineteenth cen

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780816677061
    Subjects: American literature ; 19th century ; History and criticism; National characteristics, American, in literature; Sea stories, American ; History and criticism; Seafaring life in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (328 p)
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    Antebellum at Sea: MARITIME FANTASIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA; Contents; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: Bewitching Sea; Part I: Fantasy and the Common Sailor; CHAPTER 1: Fantasies of the Common Sailor; or, Enjoying the Knowing Jack Tar; CHAPTER 2: Tarrying with the National: Fantasizing the Subject of State; Part II: Polynesian Encounters Redux; CHAPTER 3: Tattoos in Typee: Rethinkning Melville's ""Cultural Grotesque""; CHAPTER 4: Melville's "Porno-Tropics": Re-Sexuating Pacific Encounters; Part III: Ocean-States of Exception

    CHAPTER 5: The Crater and the Master's Reign: Cooper's ""Floating Imperium""CHAPTER 6: The Sublime Abject of Democracy: Melville's ""Floating Imperium""; EPILOGUE: Incomplete Sea; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z