Jack Tar's Story: The Autobiographies and Memoirs of Sailors in Antebellum America

ISBN: 9781107693258 出版年：2010 页码：208 Myra C Glenn Cambridge University Press

Introduction: why study antebellum sailor narratives? 1. Stories of escape, freedom, and captivity: seaman authors recall their early years 2. Manhood, nationalism, and sailor narratives of British captivity and the War of 1812 3. Exploring the meaning of revolution in the Americas: sailor narratives of the Haitian and South American Wars of Independence 4. Defending one's rights as a man and an American citizen: sailor narratives as exposes of flogging 5. Straddling conflicting notions of manhood: sailor narratives as stories of roistering and religious conversion Afterword.