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Author Bender, Bert.
Title Sea-brothers : the tradition of American sea fiction from Moby-Dick to the present / Bert Bender ; drawings by Tony Angell.
Publication Info Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1988.



Descript 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
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Contents The voyage in American sea fiction after the Pilgrim, the Acushnet, and the Beagle -- Meditation and the life-waters -- The shipwrecked soul: "The Encantadas": abased sea-stories; Israel Potter; "Benito Cereno" -- The Jonah feeling: John Marr and other sailors; Billy Budd, sailor (Herman Melville) -- The experience of brotherhood in "The open boat" (Stephen Crane) -- Jack London in the tradition of American sea fiction -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1860s and 1870s: Morgan Robertson, Thornton Jenkins Hains, James Brendan Connolly, Arthur Mason, Felix Riesenberg, Bill Adams -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1880s and 1890s: William McFee, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Richard Matthews Hallet, Archie Binns -- Hemingway: coming to the stream -- Hemingway's sea men: Harry Morgan, Thomas Hudson and the sea, Santiago -- Peter Matthiessen and the tradition in modern time -- Far Tortuga.
ISBN 0585196729 (electronic bk.)
9780585196725 (electronic bk.)
151281430X (electronic bk.)
9781512814309 (electronic bk.)
0812213394
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Author Bender, Bert.
Subject Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
Descript 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents The voyage in American sea fiction after the Pilgrim, the Acushnet, and the Beagle -- Meditation and the life-waters -- The shipwrecked soul: "The Encantadas": abased sea-stories; Israel Potter; "Benito Cereno" -- The Jonah feeling: John Marr and other sailors; Billy Budd, sailor (Herman Melville) -- The experience of brotherhood in "The open boat" (Stephen Crane) -- Jack London in the tradition of American sea fiction -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1860s and 1870s: Morgan Robertson, Thornton Jenkins Hains, James Brendan Connolly, Arthur Mason, Felix Riesenberg, Bill Adams -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1880s and 1890s: William McFee, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Richard Matthews Hallet, Archie Binns -- Hemingway: coming to the stream -- Hemingway's sea men: Harry Morgan, Thomas Hudson and the sea, Santiago -- Peter Matthiessen and the tradition in modern time -- Far Tortuga.
ISBN 0585196729 (electronic bk.)
9780585196725 (electronic bk.)
151281430X (electronic bk.)
9781512814309 (electronic bk.)
0812213394
Author Bender, Bert.
Subject Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.

Subject Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
Descript 1 online resource (282 pages) : illustrations
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Contents The voyage in American sea fiction after the Pilgrim, the Acushnet, and the Beagle -- Meditation and the life-waters -- The shipwrecked soul: "The Encantadas": abased sea-stories; Israel Potter; "Benito Cereno" -- The Jonah feeling: John Marr and other sailors; Billy Budd, sailor (Herman Melville) -- The experience of brotherhood in "The open boat" (Stephen Crane) -- Jack London in the tradition of American sea fiction -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1860s and 1870s: Morgan Robertson, Thornton Jenkins Hains, James Brendan Connolly, Arthur Mason, Felix Riesenberg, Bill Adams -- From sail to steam: sailor-writers of the 1880s and 1890s: William McFee, Lincoln Ross Colcord, Richard Matthews Hallet, Archie Binns -- Hemingway: coming to the stream -- Hemingway's sea men: Harry Morgan, Thomas Hudson and the sea, Santiago -- Peter Matthiessen and the tradition in modern time -- Far Tortuga.
ISBN 0585196729 (electronic bk.)
9780585196725 (electronic bk.)
151281430X (electronic bk.)
9781512814309 (electronic bk.)
0812213394

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