The Sea Voyage Narrative (Genres in Context)

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This informative and entertaining book is a handy run-down of how and why well-crafted descriptions of great ventures upon the wild oceans resonate with the reading public.

One of the earliest books of our literary heritage, Homer's Oddyssey discussed in this book , is a tale about a voyage, whether real or imagined, upon uncharted oceans. As the book demonstrates, tales about the sea are not simply a specialized genre, but are quite central to the novel as an art form. The author has developed his theme in a way that will engage both those who have read the books he surveys and those who have not but are fascinated with the untamed sea.

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The book was widely read and accepted as fact, but historians now believe that Louisa Baker never existed, and that her story was created by publisher Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. The story was so popular that a sequel, The Adventures of Lucy Brown , was published.

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The success of this further inspired Nathaniel Coverly, Jr. Again historians doubt that the book, which is full of fantastic adventure, danger, and romance, is really an autobiography of Almira Paul of Halifax, Nova Scotia , and what it is more likely is that the story was based on the lives of real women such as Hannah Snell and Mary Anne Talbot —women who defied convention to live life on their own terms.

Early in the nineteenth century Captain Marryat 's Frank Mildhay explores an important part of sailor's life ashore, their sexual encounters. John Peck, in Maritime Fiction comments that Frank's "encounters with prostitutes and a relationship with an actress resulting in a child are not what might be expected", that is he is not "the kind of honest lad', the kind of midshipmen portrayed by Jane Austen or "who well be at the centre of Marryat's Mr Midshipman Easy ".

The Saturday Evening Post in the late s ran a series of short stories about "Tugboat Annie" Brennan, a widow who ran a tugboat and successfully competed for a share of the towboat business in Puget Sound. Annie and her crew also did some crime fighting and helped people caught in storms and floods.

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The series was extremely popular and there were two films and a television show that were based on it. Until the 20th century nautical fiction focused on officer protagonists and John Peck suggests, that "the idea of the gentleman is absolutely central in maritime fiction". An early, somewhat disapproving, portrait of ordinary seamen is found in Herman Melville 's fourth novel Redburn: Being the Sailor-boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service , published in , [51] Melville's semi-autobiographical account of the adventures of a refined youth among coarse and brutal sailors and the seedier areas of Liverpool.

In June Melville had signed aboard the merchant ship St. Lawrence as a "boy" [52] a green hand for a cruise from New York to Liverpool. He returned on the same ship on the first of October, after five weeks in England. A Tale of the Forecastle. However, it was not until the twentieth century that sea stories "of men for'ard of the bridge" really developed, [53] starting with American playwright Eugene O'Neill 's SS Glencairn one act plays written —17, and his full-length play The Hairy Ape The latter is an expressionist play about a brutish, unthinking laborer known as Yank as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich.

At first Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an ocean liner, and is highly confident in his physical power over the ship's engines, but later he undergoes a crisis of identity.

O'Neill spent several years at sea, and he joined the Marine Transport Workers Union of the Industrial Workers of the World IWW , which was fighting for improved living conditions for the working class utilizing quick "on the job" direct action. The s saw the publication of a number of short stories and novels about life of seamen below deck, some written by adventure seekers from wealthy families, like Melville and O'Neill, and others from the working class, who had gone to sea out of necessity. Moneyed Malcolm Lowry was "driven to the docks in the family limousine", when he was eighteen to begin a voyage "as deck hand, cabin boy and ultimately a fireman's helper on a tramp steamer".

Writing about the men below decks required a different approach. Japanese authors have also explored working-men's life at sea.

Another aspect of sailors's lives is their experiences of sailortown , that area of public houses, brothels, lodgings, etc. Carsten Jensen 's Vi, de druknede We, the drowned , not only deals with men at sea but also encompasses the lives of boys growing up with dreams of becoming sailors and the experiences of the wives — and widows — of the seamen. While many maritime novels focus on adventure and heroic deeds, the prime function of ships, other than warfare, is the making of money. The darkest aspect of this, involving both greed and cruelty is seen in the slave trade: The novel's central theme is greed, with the subject of slavery being a primary medium for exploring the issue.

The story line has a very extensive cast of characters, and the narrative interweaves elements of appalling cruelty and horror with extended comic interludes. A sequel, The Quality of Mercy , Unsworth's last book, was published in Greed and man's inhumanity to his fellows is also the subject of Fred D'Aguiar 's third novel, Feeding the Ghosts , which was inspired by the true story of the Zong massacre in which slaves were thrown from a slave ship into the Atlantic for insurance purposes.

The importance of "the idea of the gentleman" can also be a theme of novels set on passenger ships, [50] as for example with Anthony Trollope 's novel John Caldigate.

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Several chapters of this novel deal with the eponymous hero's voyage to Australia. While Trollope claims "that life at sea is unlike life in general" the novel, in fact, presents "an intensified version of ordinary life, with social divisions rigorously enforced" which is underlined by "the physical separation of first- and second-class passengers".

While William Golding 's novel Rites of Passage is set on board a warship the ship is also carrying a number of passengers on their way to Australia, who encompass a motley yet representative collection of early 19th century English society. Class division, or the assumption of a higher status than is warranted, is a running theme of the book.

The large cast of characters includes Germans, a Swiss family, Mexicans, Americans, Spaniards, a group of Cuban medical students, and a Swede. In steerage there are Spanish workers being returned from Cuba. The concept makes up the framework of the 15th century book which served as the inspiration for Hieronymous Bosch 's famous painting, Ship of Fools: A distinction between nautical fiction and other fiction merely using the sea as a setting or backdrop is an investment in nautical detail.

Notable exponents of the sea novel not discussed above. In the twentieth century, sea stories were popular subjects for the pulp magazines. Adventure [81] and Blue Book [82] often ran sea stories by writers such as J. Allan Dunn and H. Bedford-Jones as part of their selection of fiction. Other works that included sea stories:. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Sea Stories disambiguation. Adventure fiction Children's literature Glossary of nautical terms Imaginary voyages List of fictional ships Pirates in popular culture Royal Navy In popular culture Sea in culture Submarine films War novel Women pirates in fiction.

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Margaret Cohen, for example, states that "[a]fter a seventy-five year hiatus, the maritime novel was reinvented by James Fenimore Cooper, with the Pilot ". The Novel and the Sea. Prineton University Press, , p. For a more expansive list of notable authors and works, see the Wikipedia Category: More specific thematic lists, include Cruel Seas: Britain in the Sea" in Klein, Fictions of the Sea , pp. Oxford University Press, , p. Conway Maritime Press

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