In "The Test of Salt Water": Literature of the Sea and Social Class in Antebellum America, I argue that fictional and non-fictional antebellum sea literature offers a valuable lens through which to critique authorial responses to race, social class, and economic mobility. The antebellum sailor populating the pages of the sea narrative was often celebrated as a representative American figure and a source of national pride despite the fact that, as a member of the antebellum working classes, he was a living testament to the limits of economic and social advancement in a nation where such limits were supposedly nonexistent. Authors used this disconnect, as well as the extra-national settings and generic conventions unique to the sea narrative,...
About the Author: John R. Legg holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in History from Middle Georgia State Univ...
During the nineteenth-century Golden Age of American sail, the nation\u27s merchant and whaling fl...
The paper examined the transition from elite, secular marine societies to evangelical efforts to rea...
In "The Test of Salt Water": Literature of the Sea and Social Class in Antebellum America, I argue t...
Narratives of sailors held in captivity during the antebellum era helped define American identity. S...
This study investigates the known successes and and failures of New England seamen, second-hand poet...
The antebellum era saw an unprecedented proliferation of maritime activity and a correlative product...
Examinations into marine environmental history, Great Plains environmental history, and the city of ...
This dissertation examines nineteenth century U.S. women’s maritime writings to re-evaluate and more...
Abstract: 3 p. at end. Autobiography: 1 p. at end. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University. Bibliography:...
Although much political discourse of the antebellum period characterized the mariner as a problem fo...
“The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narratives and the Maritime Imagination” exami...
This dissertation explores the active engagement of an American Indian culture with the early modern...
By locating the sailor in the context of a transatlantic dialogue on intimacy, The Logic of Intimacy...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation looks to the early American literary...
About the Author: John R. Legg holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in History from Middle Georgia State Univ...
During the nineteenth-century Golden Age of American sail, the nation\u27s merchant and whaling fl...
The paper examined the transition from elite, secular marine societies to evangelical efforts to rea...
In "The Test of Salt Water": Literature of the Sea and Social Class in Antebellum America, I argue t...
Narratives of sailors held in captivity during the antebellum era helped define American identity. S...
This study investigates the known successes and and failures of New England seamen, second-hand poet...
The antebellum era saw an unprecedented proliferation of maritime activity and a correlative product...
Examinations into marine environmental history, Great Plains environmental history, and the city of ...
This dissertation examines nineteenth century U.S. women’s maritime writings to re-evaluate and more...
Abstract: 3 p. at end. Autobiography: 1 p. at end. Thesis (Ph. D.)--Boston University. Bibliography:...
Although much political discourse of the antebellum period characterized the mariner as a problem fo...
“The View from the Mast-Head: Antebellum American Sea Narratives and the Maritime Imagination” exami...
This dissertation explores the active engagement of an American Indian culture with the early modern...
By locating the sailor in the context of a transatlantic dialogue on intimacy, The Logic of Intimacy...
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Washington, 2020This dissertation looks to the early American literary...
About the Author: John R. Legg holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in History from Middle Georgia State Univ...
During the nineteenth-century Golden Age of American sail, the nation\u27s merchant and whaling fl...
The paper examined the transition from elite, secular marine societies to evangelical efforts to rea...