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Sea-Brothers offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature. On the basis of his study of Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and ten lesser-known sea-writers, Bert Bender argues that the tradition of American sea fiction did not end with the opening of the western frontier and the replacement of sailing ships by steamers. Rather, he demonstrates its continuity and vitality, identifying a central vision within the tradition and showing how particular authors draw from, transform, and contribute to it. What is most distinctive about American sea fiction, Bender contends, is its visionary, often mystical, response to the biological world and to man's perceived place in the larger universe. When Melville envisioned the sea as the essential element of life, indeed as life itself, he changed the course of American sea fiction by introducing the relevance of biological thought. But his meditations on the whale and "the ungraspable phantom of life" project a different reality from that envisioned by his successors. In American sea fiction after Melville, the influence of Origin of Species is as powerful as that of Moby Dick or the theme of sailing ships being displaced by steam. The ideal of brotherhood so central to American sea fiction was severely compromised by the biological reality of a competitive, warring nature. Twentieth-century sea fiction has continued to center on the biological world and address the possibility of democratic brotherhood, but the issues were fundamentally changed by Darwin's theories. This book will be a valuable source for students and scholars of American literature and will interest readers of sea fiction.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN-10
0812213394
ISBN-13
9780812213393
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Author
Bert Bender
Publication Name
Sea-Brothers : the Tradition of American Sea Fiction from Moby-Dick to the Present
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Publication Year
1990
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
286 Pages

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9in
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0.7in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
15.2 Oz

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"Anyone interested in the role that adventure fiction in general, and sea fiction in particular, has played in injecting life into American literature, will find good reading, well documented scholarship, and some strong-stated theses in Sea-Brothers."-- American Studies International, "The study offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature."-- London Review of Books, "The study offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature."--London Review of Books, "Anyone interested in the role that adventure fiction in general, and sea fiction in particular, has played in injecting life into American literature, will find good reading, well documented scholarship, and some strong-stated theses in Sea-Brothers."--American Studies International, "Anyone interested in the role that adventure fiction in general, and sea fiction in particular, has played in injecting life into American literature, will find good reading, well documented scholarship, and some strong-stated theses in Sea-Brothers."- American Studies International, "The study offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature."- London Review of Books, The study offers the most extensive analysis to date of the sea and its meaning in American literature., Anyone interested in the role that adventure fiction in general, and sea fiction in particular, has played in injecting life into American literature, will find good reading, well documented scholarship, and some strong-stated theses in Sea-Brothers.
Illustrated by
Angell, Tony
Table of Content
Preface: The Sea, and the Blue Water of It Acknowledgments Note on Texts Chapter 1. The Voyage in American Sea Fiction after the Pilgrim, the Acushnet, and the Beagle Chapter 2. Meditation and the Life-Waters Chapter 3. The Shipwrecked Soul --"The Encantadas": "Abased" Sea Stories --Israel Potter --"Benito Cereno" Chapter 4. The Jonah Feeling --John Marr and Other Sailors --Billy Budd, Sailor Chapter 5. The Experience of Brotherhood in "The Open Boat" Chapter 6. Jack London in the Tradition of American Sea Fiction Chapter 7. 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 Chapter 8. From Sail to Steam: Sailor-Writers of the 1880s and 1890s --William McFee --Lincoln Ross Colcord --Richard Matthews Hallet --Archie Binns Chapter 9. Hemingway: Coming to the Stream Chapter 10. Hemingway's Sea Men --Harry Morgan --Thomas Hudson and the Sea --Santiago Chapter 11. Peter Matthiessen and the Tradition in Modern Time Chapter 12. Far Tortuga Photographs Notes Bibliography Chronology Index
Copyright Date
1989
Topic
American / General, Subjects & Themes / General
Lccn
88-017321
Dewey Decimal
813/.009/32162
Intended Audience
College Audience
Dewey Edition
19
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism

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