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The Sea and the American Imagination

Edited by Klaus Benesch, Jon-K Adams and Kerstin Schmidt.

This volume brings together a group of renowned scholars and writers whose contributions attest the ubiquity of the sea in American literature and culture. Writing from a decidedly transatlantic perspective, the authors take a fresh look at both the historical conditions and aesthetic modes by which the sea is wed to the American imagination. The topics of the 15 essays range from Cotton Mather's biblically encoded narratives of "Wonderful Sea Deliverances" to the more profane yet no less symbolic shipwrecks in the works of Norris, London, and Crane; from Anne Bradstreet's contemplations of the sea to seaward visions in American women's writing of the nineteenth and twentieth century; from Sarah Josepha Hale's utopian rewriting of the crossing to the New World in her 1853 novel "Liberia" to the reimagining of the first encounter for the 1992 Columbiad; from Hawthorne's and Melville's critical assessment of modern naval warfare to a reassessment - one hundred years later - of Slocum's low-tech, single-handed voyage around the world; and from Thoreau's meditations by the sea to the use of sea metaphors in postmodern fiction. Contributions by Udo J. Hebel, Kerri L. Thompson, Joseph C. Schöpp, Hilke Kuhlmann, Wolfgang Hochbruck, Klaus Benesch, Sabine Sielke, John R. Nelson, Jr. and Berndt Ostendorf, Paul Goetsch, Jon-K Adams, Kurt Müller, Susanne M. Maier, Hanjo Berressem, Paul Neubauer, and Stanley Koehler. Unveränderter Nachdruck der 1. Auflage 2004. 280 Seiten mit 11 Abb., broschiert (Transatlantic Perspectives. A Series of Interdisciplinary North American Studies; Vol. 16/Stauffenburg Verlag 2022) Einband angeschmutzt, leicht berieben und etwas bestoßen/cover soiled, slightly rubbed and somewhat bumped