Shipwreck in art and literature : images and interpretations from antiquity to the present day / edited by Carl Thompson
- Published:
- New York : Routledge, 2014.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 269 pages ; 24 cm.
- Additional Creators:
- Thompson, Carl (Carl Edward)
- Series:
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction / Carl Thompson -- 2.The Capsized Self: Sea Navigation, Shipwrecks and Escapes from Drowning in Southern Buddhist Narrative and Art / Sarah Shaw -- 3.`Describe nunc tempestatem':. Sea Storm and Shipwreck Type Scenes in Ancient Literature / Boris Dunsch -- 4.The Sunken Voice: Depth and Submersion in Two Early Modern Portuguese Accounts of Maritime Peril / Josiah Blackmore -- 5.God's Storms: Shipwreck and the Meanings of Ocean in Early Modern England and America / Steve Mentz -- 6.Shipwreck and the Forging of the Commercial Nation: The 1786 Wreck of the Halsewell / Carl Thompson -- 7.Shipwreck in French and British Visual Art, 1700--1842: Vernet, Northcote, Gericault, and Turner / Christine Riding -- 8.Shipwrecks on the Streets: Maritime Disaster and the Broadside Ballad Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland / Kirsty Reid -- 9.What Lies Beneath: The Submarine Shipwreck in Anglo-American Culture, 1880--1920 / Stephen Donovan -- 10.Molly Brown and the Titanic: The Shipwrecked Woman in U.S. Culture / Robin Miskolcze -- 11.Shipwrecking the World's `Wretched Refuse': Spectres of Neocolonial Exclusion in Carl de Souza's Ceux qu'on jette a la mer and Charles Masson's Droit du sol / Veronique Bragard -- 12.Wrecked in the Shallows: Yann Martel's Life of Pi / Michael Titlestad -- 13.Salvaging a Romantic Trope: The Conceptual Resurrection of Shipwreck in Recent Art Practice / Emma Cocker.
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- ISBN:
- 9780415643627 (hardback : alk. paper)
0415643627 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780203079683 (ebook) - Bibliography Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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