JOHN PECK is a Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff University. His previous books include War, the Army and Victorian Literature, How to Study a Novel, How to Study a Poet, and collections of essays on Victorian novelists. He is joint General Editor of three series: New Casebooks, Critical Issues and How to Study Literature.

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• Acknowledgements Introduction Sea Stories Jane Austen's Sailors Captain Marryat's Navy Dickens and the Sea American Sea Fiction: Cooper, Poe, Dana Herman Melville Mid-Victorian Maritime Fiction Adventures at Sea Joseph Conrad Notes Index

JOHN PECK is a Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff University. His previous books include War, the Army and Victorian Literature, How to Study a Novel, How to Study a Poet, and collections of essays on Victorian novelists. He is joint General Editor of three series: New Casebooks, Critical Issues and How to Study Literature.

This well-written and comprehensive study will interest all students and scholars of British and American literature culture. Choice

• Acknowledgements Introduction Sea Stories Jane Austen's Sailors Captain Marryat's Navy Dickens and the Sea American Sea Fiction: Cooper, Poe, Dana Herman Melville Mid-Victorian Maritime Fiction Adventures at Sea Joseph Conrad Notes Index

JOHN PECK is a Senior Lecturer in English at Cardiff University. His previous books include War, the Army and Victorian Literature, How to Study a Novel, How to Study a Poet, and collections of essays on Victorian novelists. He is joint General Editor of three series: New Casebooks, Critical Issues and How to Study Literature.

This well-written and comprehensive study will interest all students and scholars of British and American literature culture. Choice

• Acknowledgements Introduction Sea Stories Jane Austen's Sailors Captain Marryat's Navy Dickens and the Sea American Sea Fiction: Cooper, Poe, Dana Herman Melville Mid-Victorian Maritime Fiction Adventures at Sea Joseph Conrad Notes Index