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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, An

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Author

Steve Mentz

Publisher

University Of Minnesota Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9781452945552

Category

biography

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, Political Science

Updated

2026-03-25