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Examining works across two centuries, this book recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination.

Sea stories, English --- Adventure stories, English --- Naval art and science in literature. --- Seafaring life in literature. --- Sailors in literature. --- Literature. --- Adventure stories, English. --- Sea stories, English. --- History and criticism. --- Naval art and science in literature --- Sailors in literature --- Seafaring life in literature --- Seamen in literature --- History and criticism --- Thematology --- Literature --- Comparative literature --- LITERARY CRITICISM / General. --- Addison, Joseph. --- Adorno, Theodor. --- Aravamudan. Srinivas. --- Austen, Jane. --- Bakhtin, Mikhail. --- Brosse, Monique. --- Cabot, Sebastian. --- Captain Courageous. --- Corinne. --- Edwards, Philip. --- Enlightenment. --- Epic and Empire. --- Ethiopian Romance. --- Fictions of the Sea. --- Flanders, Moll. --- Frankfurt School. --- Fulton, Robert. --- Gautier, Maurice-Paul. --- Great Southern Continent. --- Hard Times. --- Heliodorus. --- Herbert, William Henry. --- Intrepid lunar module. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Johnson, Captain. --- Knight, Diana. --- Lem, Stanislas. --- Maiorino, Giancarlo. --- Neuromancer. --- Oriental tales. --- bourgeois reason. --- cannibals. --- capitalism. --- chase theme. --- clipper ships. --- conjecture. --- cyberfiction. --- cybernetics. --- danger. --- domestic novel. --- domestic themes. --- endeavor. --- globalization. --- historical novel. --- homesickness of the moderns. --- horizon. --- imagination. --- industrial-technical existence. --- jury-rigging. --- marine chronometer. --- naive empiricism. --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- English adventure stories --- English fiction --- English sea stories --- Sailors as literary characters