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In this analysis of the sea and its meaning in American literature, Bender focuses on Melville, Crane, London, Hemingway, Matthiessen, and 10 lesser-known sea-writers, and demonstrates the continuity and vitality of sea fiction. What he finds most distinctive about American sea fiction is its visionary, often mystical response to the biological world and to man's perceived place in the larger universe. He shows how Melville envisioned the sea as the...
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"In this study, John Peck examines the cultural significance of maritime novels from Defoe through to Conrad. Focusing in particular on the image of the body, he illustrates how these works are built around the disparity between the masculine and often brutal regime of the ship and the civilized values of those who remain on the shore. It is an exploration of the relationship between national identity, fiction and the sea."--Jacket.
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