"a Bold and Hardy Race of Men" The Lives and Literature of American Whalemen |
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Author:
| Schell, Jennifer |
ISBN: | 978-1-62534-020-7 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $29.95 |
Book Description:
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To explain why the whaling industry had such a widespread and enduring impact on American literature, Jennifer Schell juxtaposes and analyzes a wide array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century whaling narratives. Drawing on various studies of masculinity, labor history, and transnationalism, Schell shows how this particular type of maritime work, and the traits and values associated with it, helped to shape the American literary, cultural, and historical imagination.
To explain why the whaling industry had such a widespread and enduring impact on American literature, Jennifer Schell juxtaposes and analyzes a wide array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century whaling narratives. Drawing on various studies of masculinity, labor history, and transnationalism, Schell shows how this particular type of maritime work, and the traits and values associated with it, helped to shape the American literary, cultural, and historical imagination.