Sailor Talk : Labor, Utterance, and Meaning in the Works of Melville, Conrad, and London / Mary K. Bercaw Edwards.

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Bercaw Edwards, Mary K

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180085868X
9781800858688

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sailor Talk.DDC classification:

823.00935283875 23

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PS2387 .B47 2021

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Sailors -- Orality -- Herman Melville -- Joseph Conrad -- Jack London.

Summary: Investigates the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk, ' rethinking the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich and complex culture of seafarers in port and at sea, and the foundational role of maritime language in the works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London.

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Sailors -- Orality -- Herman Melville -- Joseph Conrad -- Jack London.

Investigates the literary and cultural significance of 'sailor talk, ' rethinking the nineteenth-century sailor and sailor-writer, whose language articulated the rich and complex culture of seafarers in port and at sea, and the foundational role of maritime language in the works of Herman Melville, Joseph Conrad, and Jack London.

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