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In his novel Miriam Coffin, or The Whale-Fishermen (1834), Joseph C. Hart proclaimed that his characters were'a bold and hardy race of men,'who deserved the'expressive title of American Whale-Fishermen.'Hart was not the only American author to applaud these physical laborers as the embodiment of national manhood. Heroic portraits of whalers first appeared in American literature during the 1780s, and they proliferated across time. Writers as various as Lydia Howard Huntley Sigourney, Frederick Douglass, and Walt Whitman celebrated the talents of the seafarers who transformed the New England whale fishery into a globally dominant industry. But these images did not go unchallenged. Alternative visions -- some of which undermined the iconic status of the trade and its workers -- began to proliferate. Even so, these depictions did very little to dismantle the notion that whaling men were prime exemplars of a proud American work ethic.To explain why this industry had such a widespread and enduring impact on American literature, Jennifer Schell juxtaposes and analyzes a wide array of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century whaling narratives. Drawing on various studies of masculinity, labor hi

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Author

Schell, Jennifer

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781625340207

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Literary Fiction, Literary Criticism