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Antebellum at sea : maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America
- Title
- Antebellum at sea : maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America / Jason Berger.
- Author
- Berger, Jason, 1976-
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
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Details
- Description
- x, 338 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Bewitching sea -- Fantasies of the common sailor; or, enjoying the knowing Jack Tar -- Tarrying with the national: fantasizing the subject of state -- Tattoos in Typee: rethinking Melville's "cultural grotesque" -- Melville's porno-tropics: re-sexuating pacific encounters -- The crater and the master's reign: Cooper's "floating imperium" -- The sublime abject of democracy: Melville's "floating imperium" -- Epilogue: Incomplete sea.
- Call Number
- JFD 13-1452
- ISBN
- 9780816677061 (hc : acid-free paper)
- 0816677069 (hc : acid-free paper)
- 9780816677078 (pb : acid-free paper)
- 0816677077 (pb : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2012027703
- OCLC
- 788268261
- Author
- Berger, Jason, 1976-
- Title
- Antebellum at sea : maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America / Jason Berger.
- Imprint
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 13-1452