Shipboard literary cultures : Reading, writing, and performing at sea 1st ed.

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Liebich, Usann
• Publicover, Laurence

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030853396

Series

Maritime literature and culture

Subject(s)

• OCEAN TRAVEL IN LITERATURE
• SEA IN LITERATURE

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Abstract

The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through—and framed by—such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading—and of writing and performing—in specific ways.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxi, 291 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Chapter 1: Stephen R. Berry (Associate Professor of History, Simmons College, US), The Sailing Ship as a School of Virtue
Chapter 2: Christian Algar (Curator, Printed Heritage Collections, British Library), Books with Providence: The Power and Influence of a Puritan Naval Chaplains Library at Sea
Chapter 3: Tamsin Badcoe (Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK), Writing the Cabin as Cloister in the Diary of Sister Mary Paul Mulquin
Chapter 4: Jimmy Packham (Lecturer in North American Literature, University of Birmingham, UK): The Maritime Self on the American Whaleship
Chapter 5: Laurence Publicover (Senior Lecturer in English, University of Bristol, UK) and Eli Cumings (Postgraduate Researcher, University of Cambridge), Shipboard Diaries as Navigational Instruments
Chapter 6: Helen Chambers (Research Associate, The Open University, UK), The Torrens as a space of writing, reading, and performance
Chapter 7: Mary Isbell (Assistant Professor of English, University of New Haven, US), Recognition and Anonymity: Shipboard Theatricals and Newspapers aboard USS Macedonian
Chapter 8: Susann Liebich (Postdoctoral Fellow in History, Heidelberg University, Germany), Identity and Community in New Zealand Troopship Magazines of the First World War
Chapter 9: Tamson Pietsch (Senior Lecturer in Social and Political Sciences, University of Technology Sydney, Australia), The laboratory method made mobile: learning aboard the 1926-27 Floating University
Chapter 10: David Punter (Professor of English, University of Bristol, UK), Down to the Sea in Ships
Afterword: Hester Blum (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University, USA)

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00051/23	809.9332162 Shi	Online !	Available