Table of contents for The view from the masthead : maritime imagination and antebellum American sea narratives / by Hester Blum.

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Acknowledgments 00
Introduction 1
Part I. The Sea Narrative and Sailors' Literary Culture
Chapter 1. The Literati of the Galley 00
Chapter 2. Barbary Captivity and Intra-Atlantic Print Culture 000
Chapter 3. Naval Memoirs and the Literary Marketplace 000
Part II. Maritime Epistemology and Crisis
Chapter 4. The Sea Eye 000
Chapter 5. The Galapagos and the Evolution of the Maritime Imagination 000
Chapter 6. From Preface to Postscript: Death and Burial at Sea 000
Afterword 000
Notes 000
Bibliography 000
Index 000

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:

Sea stories, American -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
Sailors in literature.
Seafaring life in literature.
Labor in literature.
Self in literature.
National characteristics, American, in literature.
Knowledge, Theory of, in literature.