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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. |
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0585196729 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585196725 (electronic bk.) |
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151281430X (electronic bk.) |
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9781512814309 (electronic bk.) |
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0812213394 |
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