Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA.Martha Elena Rojas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

• Introduction: The Hungry Ocean Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas 1. William Falconer and the Empire of the Deep Siobhan Carroll 2. Scientists Writing and Knowing the Ocean Helen M. Rozwadowski 3. Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researchers Hester Blum 4. Keeping up with the Morrells: Sailors and the Construction of American Identity in Antebellum Sea Narratives Amy Parsons 5. "The Perils of Crossings": Nineteenth-Century Navigations of City and Sea Sophie Gilmartin 6. Seeing through Water: The Paintings of Zach Pritchard Margaret Cohen 7. Pacific Ocean Flowers: Colonial Seaweed Albums Molly Duggins 8. The Sea as Green Fields: Calenture and Wordsworth's Rural Ocean Frank Mabee 9. Melville's "Brit": An Etymological and Ecocritical Chomp into Moby-DickRichard J. King 10. The Ocean as Quasi-Object, or Ecocriticism and the Doll from the Deep Patricia Yaeger

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA.Martha Elena Rojas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

• Introduction: The Hungry Ocean Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas 1. William Falconer and the Empire of the Deep Siobhan Carroll 2. Scientists Writing and Knowing the Ocean Helen M. Rozwadowski 3. Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researchers Hester Blum 4. Keeping up with the Morrells: Sailors and the Construction of American Identity in Antebellum Sea Narratives Amy Parsons 5. "The Perils of Crossings": Nineteenth-Century Navigations of City and Sea Sophie Gilmartin 6. Seeing through Water: The Paintings of Zach Pritchard Margaret Cohen 7. Pacific Ocean Flowers: Colonial Seaweed Albums Molly Duggins 8. The Sea as Green Fields: Calenture and Wordsworth's Rural Ocean Frank Mabee 9. Melville's "Brit": An Etymological and Ecocritical Chomp into Moby-DickRichard J. King 10. The Ocean as Quasi-Object, or Ecocriticism and the Doll from the Deep Patricia Yaeger

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St. John's University, USA.Martha Elena Rojas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

• Introduction: The Hungry Ocean Steve Mentz and Martha Elena Rojas 1. William Falconer and the Empire of the Deep Siobhan Carroll 2. Scientists Writing and Knowing the Ocean Helen M. Rozwadowski 3. Charles Francis Hall's Arctic Researchers Hester Blum 4. Keeping up with the Morrells: Sailors and the Construction of American Identity in Antebellum Sea Narratives Amy Parsons 5. "The Perils of Crossings": Nineteenth-Century Navigations of City and Sea Sophie Gilmartin 6. Seeing through Water: The Paintings of Zach Pritchard Margaret Cohen 7. Pacific Ocean Flowers: Colonial Seaweed Albums Molly Duggins 8. The Sea as Green Fields: Calenture and Wordsworth's Rural Ocean Frank Mabee 9. Melville's "Brit": An Etymological and Ecocritical Chomp into Moby-DickRichard J. King 10. The Ocean as Quasi-Object, or Ecocriticism and the Doll from the Deep Patricia Yaeger