Fictions of the sea : critical perspectives on the ocean in British literature and culture /

Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction : Britain and the sea / Bernhard Klein -- 1. Who owns the sea? / James Muldoon -- 2. Orientation as a paradigm of maritime modernity / Ulrich Kinzel -- 3. Satan's ocean voyage and 18th-century seafaring trade / Anne-Julia Zwierlein -- 4. Class war and the albatross : the politics of ships as social space and The rime of the ancient mariner / Sarah Moss -- 5. Walter Scott's The pirate : imperialism, nationalism and bourgeois values / Arnold Schmidt -- 6. Death by water : the theory and practice of shipwrecking / Ina Habermann -- 7. The sea is history : historicizing the Homeric sea in Victorian passages / Tobias Döring -- 8. 'As I wuz a-rolling down the highway one morn' : fictions of the 19th-century English sailortown / Valerie Burton -- 9. Conrad's crews revisited / Jürgen Kramer -- 10. Cabin'd yet unconfined : heroic masculinity in English seafaring novels / Susan Bassnett -- 11. The sea is slavery : Middle Passage narratives / Carl Pedersen -- 12. Cinematographic seas : metaphors of crossing and shipwreck on the big screen (1990-2001) / Patrizia A. Muscogiuri.Print version record