Reading the Sea: New Essays on Sea Literature - Hardcover

Thirteen new perspectives on the sea's role in literature. The contributors to this volume examine issues, as ancient as medieval dream analysis and as contemporary as gender inscription, in their investigation of the poems, plays, novels, and novellas of some of the world's most well-known literary figures. Here you will find studies of the sea's relationship to the works of Herman Melville, Daniel Defoe, Charles Johnson, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth Bishop, Derek Walcott, John Millington Synge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and others.