Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism


The Sea in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature | Further Reading

FURTHER READING

CRITICISM

Blish, M. “Melville and the Sea Drifters of Japan.” Melville Society Extracts 76 (February 1989): 14-16.

Traces the many mentions in Moby-Dick of Japanese Sea Drifters—sailors whose boats had been disabled and, as a result, drifted with the Pacific currents.

Candido, Anne Marie. “A New Sea in a New Frontier: American Leadership in The Pathfinder.Etudes Anglaises 44, No. 3 (July-September 1991): 285-95.

Focuses on the Lake Ontario setting of Cooper's novel The Pathfinder.

Cramer, Timothy R. “Testing the Waters: Contemplating the Sea in E[mily] D[ickinson]'s Poem 520 and Kate Chopin's The Awakening.Dickinson Studies 83 (1992): 51-56.

Compares Emily Dickinson's and Kate Chopin's use of the sea as a setting for soul-searching and individual freedom.

Cuddy, Lois A. “Eliot and Huck Finn: River and Sea in...

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