Category Archives: Dissertation Digest
Best Shipwreck Book Ever: ‘The Mariner’s Chronicle’
Just about everyone loves a good shipwreck book. For the time period I’m researching–the long nineteenth century–there were many shipwreck books. By 1806, Americans could choose from over 200 shipwreck book-length shipwreck narratives, including Archibald Duncan’s seminal anthology The Mariner’s Chronicle. Thanks to … Continue reading
Back in the Big Easy
It’s great to be home after more than a month on Cape Cod teaching, writing, researching and visiting friends and family. (Good luck S-241! I’ll be following your blog–fair winds and following seas.) There’s a mountain of new shipwreck fodder … Continue reading
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The Shipwreck: A Comic Opera (ca. 1800)
Americans have always loved a good shipwreck story. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, shipwreck narratives inundated the new nation. By 1806, nearly 200 book-length shipwreck narratives were available to the American public, including the first American edition of Archibald Duncan’s … Continue reading
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A shipwreck weekend
It was an epic shipwreck-themed long weekend that involved 1,000 miles in a rented car, a day in Philly, a seminar, two public lectures, three tattoos, and whole lot of meetings. I’m still catching my breath in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, … Continue reading
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Forgotten Wrecks: Titanic centennial prequel
In two days we’ll all celebrate the centennial anniversary of the world’s most famous wreck, and we’ll do so for good reason. Titanic is the first thing that comes to the minds of most of us when they we “shipwreck.” It … Continue reading
