Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550-1719

by Steve Mentz

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0816691061

ISBN13:9780816691067

Release Date:December 2015

Publisher:University of Minnesota Press

Length:264 Pages

Weight:0.75 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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