Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of
maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of
ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought
temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down.
Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for
stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global
expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary
language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Steve Mentz
identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of
shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the
mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet
globalization, blue ecology, and shipwreck modernity. The years
during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to
define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also a time
when maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon
makers, and many others. Through coming to terms with shipwreck,
these figures adapted to disruptive change. Traces of shipwreck
ecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne to
Defoe and also in sermons, tales of survival, amateur poetry, and
the diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors. The isolated
islands of Bermuda and the perils of divine anger hold central
places. Modern sailor-poets including Herman Melville serve as
valuable touchstones in the effort to parse the reality and
understandings of global shipwreck. Offering the first ecocritical
account of early modern shipwreck narratives, Shipwreck Modernity
reveals the surprisingly modern truths to be found in these early
stories of ecological collapse.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Minnesota Press
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| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
December 2015 |
| First published: |
2015 |
| Authors: |
Steve Mentz
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| Dimensions: |
216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
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| Pages: |
264 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8166-9106-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-8166-9106-1 |
| Barcode: |
9780816691067 |
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