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Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719
Steve Mentz
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Description for Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719
Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; 3J; DSB; JFFS; WGG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 38. .
Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Steve Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet globalization, blue ... Read more
Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Steve Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet globalization, blue ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
318g
Number of Pages
264
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816691067
SKU
V9780816691067
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About Steve Mentz
Steve Mentz is professor of English at St John's University in New York City. He is author of At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean and Romance for Sale in Early Modern England: The Rise of Prose Fiction.
Reviews for Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719
Mentz has shaped an account that looks poised to become a key ecocritical text in the years to come. -Glasgow Review of Books Steve Mentz offers close and careful readings of early modern texts that are contextualized and scholarly, but also politically engaged. -The Sixteenth Century Journal This is a remarkable and ... Read more