Shipboard literary cultures : reading, writing, and performing at sea /Susann Liebich, Laurence Publicover, editors.

"The essays collected within this volume ask how literary practices are shaped by the experience of being at sea--and also how they forge that experience. Individual chapters explore the literary worlds of naval ships, whalers, commercial vessels, emigrant ships, and troop transports from the seventeenth to the twentieth-first century, revealing a rich history of shipboard reading, writing, and performing. Contributors are interested both in how literary activities adapt to the maritime world, and in how individual and collective shipboard experiences are structured through--and framed by--such activities."--Provided by the publisher.