Maritime Fiction: Sailors and the Sea in British and American Novels, 1719-1917

by John Peck

Book Overview

In this important new study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilized values of those who remain on the shore. The first comprehensive discussion of its subject, Maritime Fiction is an original exploration of the relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333793579
• ISBN13: 9780333793572
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 214 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"