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For the first time during the Early Modern period, ships regularly traveled between and among all of basins that comprise the World Ocean. During this period European mariners ventured into…
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Water and cognition seem unrelated things, the one a physical environment and the other an intellectual process. The essays in this book show how bringing these two modes together revitalizes…
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Steve Mentz
Navigate the Depths of a Timeless Classic, Reimagined.
Come sail with I.
We're not taking the same trip, though you might recognize the familiarcourse. This time, the Pequod's American voyage…
Examining the divergent but interlocking careers of Robert Greene, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Lodge, and Thomas Nashe, the author traces how through differing commitments to print culture and their respective…
An Introduction to The Blue Humanities is the first textbook to explore the many ways humans engage with water, utilizing literary, cultural, historical, and theoretical connections and ecologies to introduce…
Takes the singular eco-catastrophic Age of Man and redefines this epoch
We live in a new world: the Anthropocene. The Age of Man is defined in many ways, and most…
Traces of shipwreckecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne and also insermons, tales of survival, and diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors.Offering the first ecocritical account of early modern…
The mysteries of the rivers, the secrets of the lochs, the whispers across the vast stretches of the ocean, there are so many stories from the beginnings of civilisation, through…
Dr Steve Mentz (St John's University, USA)
A study revealing Shakespeare’s career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery. It sets Shakespeare’s sea-poetry against modern literary seascapes, including the vast Pacific of Moby-Dick…
A collection of essays on the literary and cultural impact of the early modern rogue. Under various names - rogues, vagrants, molls, doxies, vagabonds, cony-catchers, masterless men - this group…
This collection emphasizes that rogue culture, in spite of the continuing controversy surrounding its origins, served an important role in letting ordinary citizens, especially those partially dislocated by emerging capitalism…
Emphasizing the frailty of human experience, Steve Mentz’s Ocean looks at the largest object on our planet from a fresh perspective –
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This collection of essays by scholars in transatlantic British and American literatures interrogates the diverse meanings the ocean assumed for writers, readers, and thinkers on both sides of the Atlantic…
The Routledge Companion to Marine and Maritime Worlds, 1400-1800 explores early modern maritime history, culture, and the current state of the research and approaches taken by experts in the field.
