{"product_id":"antebellum-at-sea-maritime-fantasies-in-nineteenth-century-america-paperback-softback-9780816677078","title":"Antebellum at Sea; Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America (Paperback \/ softback) 9780816677078","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAntebellum at Sea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eMaritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJason Berger (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780816677078\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 3 October 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e328 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eAntebellum at Sea\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFocusing 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAddressing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Bewitching Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eI. Fantasy and the Common Sailor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Fantasies of the Common Sailor; or, Enjoying the Knowing Jack Tar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2. Tarrying with the National: Fantasizing the Subject of State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eII. Polynesian Encounters Redux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e3. Tattoos in \u003ci\u003eTypee\u003c\/i\u003e: Rethinking Melville’s “Cultural Grotesque”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e4. Melville’s Porno-Tropics: Re-Sexuating Pacific Encounters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIII. Ocean-States of Exception\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e5. \u003ci\u003eThe Crater\u003c\/i\u003e and the Master’s Reign: Cooper’s “Floating \u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e6. The Sublime Abject of Democracy: Melville’s “Floating \u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue: Incomplete Sea\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Univ Of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52570079494424,"sku":"9780816677078","price":18.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/antebellum-at-sea-maritime-fantasies-in-nineteenth-century-america-paperback-softback-9780816677078","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}