SHIPBOARD LITERARY CULTURES: READING, WRITING AND PERFORMING AT SEA
Written by Susann Liebich, Laurence Publicover
Published by Palgrave Macmillan
in 2021
ISBN: 9783030853389
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- TRANSPORT
- MARITIME
- LITERARY CRITICISM
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SHIPBOARD LITERARY CULTURES: READING, WRITING AND PERFORMING AT SEA
Written by Susann Liebich, Laurence Publicover.
Stock no. 1825148
1st.
2021.
Hardback.
Slightly better than very good condition.
Maritime Literature and Culture series. The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea. Edited by Liebich and Publicover. Matt blue pictorial boards. Printed by Books on Demand, Germany. ISBN: 9783030853389. Lower corners of boards bumped. Rear board lightly scuffed. Contents clean.
Front cover
Contents
- 1. Introduction: Shipboard Literary Cultures and the Stain of the Sea
- 2. Books with Providence: The Power and Influence of Book Ownership on a Seventeenth-Century Man-of-War
- 3. The Sailing Ship as a School of Virtue
- 4. Recognition and Annonymity: Shipboard Theatricals and Newspapers Aboard USS Macedonian
- 5. Shipboard Diaries as Navigational Instruments
- 6. The Maritime Self on the American Whaleship
- 7. Writing the Cabin as Cloister in the Diary of Sister Mary Paul Mulquin
- 8. The Torrens as a Space of Writing, Reading, and Performance
- 9. Communities of Print at Sea and Beyond: Troopship Magazines in World War I
- 10. Learing at Sea: Education Aboard the 1926-27 Floating University
- 11. Afterword: Down to the Sea in Ships
- Index