Shipwreck in Art and Literature

Carl Thompson is Senior Lecturer in English at Nottingham Trent University, UK.

"Thompson deserves praise for having assembled a wide range of essays that cover such a broad sweep of time…the collection as a whole warrants considerable merit. In its close focus on shipwreck as a way to reframe imperial expansion and technological change, as a lens through which to explore the complexities of religion, race, class, and gender through time, and as a critique of modernity in the broadest terms, Shipwreck in Art and Literature is a valuable addition to the recent revival of oceanic studies across the disciplines." --Christopher L. Pastore, University of Albany, SUNY, Journeys

• 1. Introduction Carl Thompson 2. The Capsized Self: Sea Navigation, Shipwrecks and Escapes from Drowning in Southern Buddhist Narrative and Art Sarah Shaw 3. 'Describe Nunc Tempestatem': Sea-Storm and Shipwreck Type-Scenes in Ancient Literature Boris Dunsch 4. The Sunken Voice: Depth and Submersion in Two Early Modern Portuguese Accounts of Maritime Peril Josiah Blackmore 5. God's Voice: Shipwreck and the Meanings of Ocean in Early Modern England and America Steve Mentz 6. Shipwreck and the Forging of the Commerical Nation: The 1786 Wreck of the HalsewellCarl Thompson 7. Shipwreck in French and British Visual Art, 1700-1842: Vernet, Northcote, Géricault and Turner Christine Riding 8. Shipwrecks on the Streets: Maritime Disaster and the Broadside Ballad Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland Kirsty Reid 9. What Lies Beneath: The Submarine Shipwreck in Anglo-American Culture, 1880-1920 Stephen Donovan 10. Molly Brown and the Titanic: the Shipwrecked Woman in U.S. Culture Robin Miskolcze 11. Shipwrecking the World's 'Wretched Refuse': Spectres of Neo-colonial Exclusion in Carl de Souza's Ceux qu'on jette à la mer and Charles Masson's Droit du sol Véronique Bragard 12. Wrecked in the Shallows: Yann Martel's Life of Pi Michael Titlestad 13. Salvaging a Romantic Trope: The Conceptual Resurrection of Shipwreck in Recent Art Practice Emma Cocker