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Title:

America and the sea : a literary history / edited by Haskell Springer.

Publisher:

University of Georgia Press,

Copyright Date:

c1995

Description:

xi, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.
Sea stories, American--History and criticism.
Sea poetry, American--History and criticism.
Seafaring life in literature.
Ocean travel in literature.
America--Historiography.--Historiography.
America--In literature.
America--Historiography.--Historiography.
America--In literature.
Oceans--Special subjects--Oceans

Other Authors:

Springer, Haskell S.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-384) and index.

Contents:

Herman Melville / Haskell Springer and Douglas Robillard -- Colonial era -- Revolutionary and Federal periods / Donald P. Wharton -- Cooper and his contemporaries / Hugh Egan -- Personal narratives, journals, and diaries / John Samson -- Hymns, chanteys, and sea songs / Robert D. Madison -- Poetry in the mainstream / Joseph Flibbert -- Herman Melville / Haskell Springer and Douglas Robillard --
Prose since 1960 / Realism and beyond / Dennis Berthold. Fiction by seamen after Melville / Bert Bender -- Great Lakes maritime fiction / Victoria Brehm -- African-American literature / Elizabeth Schultz -- Twentieth-century poetry / Dennis Welland -- Modernist prose and its antecedents / Joseph DeFalco -- Prose since 1960 / Dennis Berthold.

ISBN:

9780820316512 (alk. paper)
0820316512 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)29429142
(OCoLC)32701061

LCCN:

93044385

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)