Overview
In the antebellum years, the Western world's symbolic realities were expanded and challenged as merchant, military, and scientific activity moved into Pacific and Arctic waters. Jason Berger explores the roles that early nineteenth-century maritime narratives played in conceptualizing the developing global market system and what these chronicles disclose about an era marked by immense change.
Full Product Details
Author: Jason Berger
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:
Width: 14.00cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.408kg
ISBN: 9780816677078
ISBN 10: 0816677077
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 03 October 2012
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
In Antebellum at Sea , Jason Berger advances a highly persuasive, psycho-analytically informed account of the cultural work sea narratives played in negotiating the contradictions between antebellum market society and the maritime trade's immersion in a global capitalist order. Through a series of superb readings, Berger shows how sea fantasies operated at the level of everyday lived experience even as they reshaped ideological coordinates. Antebellum at Sea should interest anyone concerned with the impact of globalization on 19th century cultural politics. --Donald E. Pease<br>
In Antebellum at Sea , Jason Berger advances a highly persuasive, psycho-analytically informed account of the cultural work sea narratives played in negotiating the contradictions between antebellum market society and the maritime trade's immersion in a global capitalist order. Through a series of superb readings, Berger shows how sea fantasies operated at the level of everyday lived experience even as they reshaped ideological coordinates. Antebellum at Sea should interest anyone concerned with the impact of globalization on 19th century cultural politics. --Donald E. Pease
"""In ""Antebellum at Sea"", Jason Berger advances a highly persuasive, psycho-analytically informed account of the cultural work sea narratives played in negotiating the contradictions between antebellum market society and the maritime trade's immersion in a global capitalist order. Through a series of superb readings, Berger shows how sea fantasies operated at the level of everyday lived experience even as they reshaped ideological coordinates. ""Antebellum at Sea"" should interest anyone concerned with the impact of globalization on 19th century cultural politics."" --Donald E. Pease"
Author Information
Jason Berger is assistant professor of English at the University of South Dakota.
