The Novel and the Sea

by Margaret Cohen

Book Overview

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what if novels were viewed in terms of the seas that unite these different lands? Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. Margaret...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691155984
• ISBN13: 9780691155982
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"