Antebellum at Sea : Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America

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Antebellum at Sea : Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America

Berger, Jason

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University of Minnesota Press（2012/10発売）
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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 328 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780816677078
DDC分類 973.5

Full Description

In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. In Antebellum at Sea, Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing economic and social transitions in the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change.

Focusing on the work of James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville, Berger enhances our understanding of how the nineteenth century negotiated its own tenuous progress by portraying how a wide range of maritime stories lays bare disturbing experiences of the new. Berger draws on Slavoj Žižek's Lacanian notion of fantasy in order to reconsider the complex way maritime accounts operated in the political landscape of antebellum America, examining topics such as the function of maritime labor know-how within a transformation of scientific knowledge, anxiety produced by conflict between gender-specific and culture-specific forms of enjoyment, and how legal practices illuminate troubling juridical paradoxes at the heart of Polk-era political life.

Addressing the ideas of the antebellum age from unexpected and revealing perspectives, Berger calls on the conception of fantasy to consider how antebellum maritime literature disputes conventional views of American history, literature, and national identity.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bewitching Sea

I. Fantasy and the Common Sailor

1. Fantasies of the Common Sailor; or, Enjoying the Knowing Jack Tar

2. Tarrying with the National: Fantasizing the Subject of State

II. Polynesian Encounters Redux

3. Tattoos in Typee: Rethinking Melville's "Cultural Grotesque"

4. Melville's Porno-Tropics: Re-Sexuating Pacific Encounters

III. Ocean-States of Exception

5. The Crater and the Master's Reign: Cooper's "Floating Imperium"

6. The Sublime Abject of Democracy: Melville's "Floating Imperium"

Epilogue: Incomplete Sea

Notes

Index