Jack Tar s Story The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America 1st Edition by Myra Glenn ISBN 978-0521193689 0521193680
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ISBN 10: 0521193680
ISBN 13: 978-0521193689
Author: Myra C. Glenn
Jack Tar’s Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic. It is the first study to use various kinds of institutional sources, including crew lists, ships’ logs, impressment records, to document the stories sailors told. It focuses on how mariner authors remembered/interpreted various events and experiences, including the War of 1812, the Haitian Revolution, South America’s wars of independence, British impressment, flogging on the high seas, roistering, and religious conversion. This book straddles different fields of scholarship and suggests how their concerns intersect or resonate with each other: the history of print culture, the study of autobiographical writing, and the historiography of seafaring life and of masculinity in antebellum America.
Table of contents:
Introduction: Why Study Antebellum Sailor Narratives?
Chapter 1: Stories of Escape, Freedom, and Captivity – Seaman Authors Recall Their Early Years
Chapter 2: Manhood, Nationalism, and Sailor Narratives of British Captivity and the War of 1812
Chapter 3: Exploring the Meaning of Revolution in the Americas – Sailor Narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence
Chapter 4: Defending One’s Rights as a Man and an American Citizen – Sailor Narratives as Exposés of Flogging
Chapter 5: Straddling Conflicting Notions of Manhood – Sailor Narratives as Stories of Roistering and Religious Conversion
Afterword
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