Shipboard Literary Cultures Reading Writing And Performing At Sea Susann Liebich Editor by Susann Liebich (editor), Laurence Publicover (editor) 9783030853389, 3030853381 instant download after payment.

The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are
shaped by the experience of being at sea―and also how they forge that
experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval
ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports
from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich
history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are
interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world,
and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are
structured through―and framed by―such activities. In this respect, the
volume builds on scholarship that has explored reading as a spatially
situated and embodied practice. As our contributors demonstrate, the
shipboard environment and the ocean beyond it place the mind and body
under peculiar forms of pressure, and these determine acts of
reading―and of writing and performing―in specific ways.