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Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing, and Performing at Sea Susann Liebich (Editor) Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Susann Liebich (editor), Laurence Publicover (editor)

ISBN(s): 9783030853389, 3030853381

File Details: PDF, 4.20 MB

Year: 2021

Language: English

SKU: EB-42250618 Category: History - World History Tags: Performing at Sea, Shipboard Literary, Susann Liebich

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Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing, and Performing at Sea 1st edition- Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030853389,3030853381,9783030853396, 303085339X

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ISBN 10: 303085339X
ISBN 13: 9783030853396
Author: Susann Liebich

The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea—and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through—and framed by—such activities. In this respect, the volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of reading—and of writing and performing—in specific ways.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Shipboard Literary Cultures and the Stain of the Sea

2. Books with Providence: The Power and Influence of Book Ownership on a Seventeenth-Century Man-of-War

3. The Sailing Ship as a School of Virtue

4. Recognition and Anonymity: Shipboard Theatricals and Newspapers Aboard USS Macedonian

5. Shipboard Diaries as Navigational Instruments

6. The Maritime Self on the American Whaleship

7. Writing the Cabin as Cloister in the Diary of Sister Mary Paul Mulquin

8. The Torrens as a Space of Writing, Reading, and Performance

9. Communities of Print at Sea and Beyond: Troopship Magazines in World War I

10. Learning at Sea: Education Aboard the 1926–27 Floating University

11. Afterword: Down to the Sea in Ships