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Shipwreck Modernity: coming next Fall

March 6, 2015 by Steve Mentz Leave a Comment

Just got the cover image from University of Minnesota Press. It’ll be out next fall…

MentzBits and pieces of this book have been filtering through this blog for years, but now it’s time to start a fuller rollout. Starting with the table of contents:

Two Prefaces:

Epochal Claims and the Age of Shipwreck

Ulysses and the Global Ecology

1: The Wet and the Dry: Shipwreck Hermeneutics

2: Angry Gods: Theologies of the Ocean

3; Isle of Tempests: Bermuda in the Early Modern Imagination

Interchapter: Pearls that were his eyes

4: Metis: Jeremy Roch

5. Metis: Edward Barlow

Interchapter: Philosopher on the Mast-Head

6. “We Split”: Sea Poetry and Maritime Crisis

7. Castaways: Surviving Disaster

Three Short Epilogues

The Bright Light of Shipwreck

The Bookfish

Seven Shipwrecked Ecological Truths

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