Shipwreck modernity : ecologies of globalization, 1550/1719

Shipwreck modernity : ecologies of globalization, 1550/1719 / Steve Mentz.

This title 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...

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Main Author: Mentz, Steve
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Shipwrecks in literature.
Literature and society > History.
Ecology in literature.
Civilization, Modern, in literature.
Shipwreck survival in literature.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Civilization, Modern, in literature
Ecology in literature
Literature and society
Shipwreck survival in literature
Shipwrecks in literature
Electronic book.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Two Prefaces
  • Theoretical Preface: Epochal Claims and the Age of Shipwreck
  • Narrative Preface: Ulysses and the Global Ecology
  • 1. The Wet and the Dry: Shipwreck Hermeneutics
  • 2. Angry Gods: Theologies of the Ocean
  • 3. Isle of Tempests: Bermuda in the Early Modern Imagination
  • Interchapter: Pearls That Were His Eyes
  • 4. Metis: Jeremy Roch
  • 5. Metis: Edward Barlow
  • Interchapter: Philosopher at the Masthead
  • 6. "We Split": Sea Poetry and Maritime Crisis
  • 7. Castaways: Surviving Disaster
  • Three Short Epilogues
  • The Bright Light of Shipwreck
  • The Bookfish
  • Seven Shipwrecked Ecological Truths
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index
  • A
  • B
  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
  • V
  • W
  • Y
  • Z.

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