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Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America

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Description for Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 451.

In the antebellum years, the Western world’s symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change.

Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the nineteenth century negotiated its own tenuous progress by portraying how a wide range of maritime stories lays bare disturbing ... Read more

Addressing the ideas of the antebellum age from unexpected and revealing perspectives, Berger calls on the conception of fantasy to consider how antebellum maritime literature disputes conventional views of American history, literature, and national identity.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816677078
SKU
V9780816677078
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About Jason Berger
Jason Berger is assistant professor of English at the University of South Dakota.

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