{"product_id":"shipwreck-modernity-9780816691067","title":"Shipwreck Modernity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A compelling, provocative, even lyrical piece of scholarship that will undoubtedly inaugurate new critical discussions in the fields of maritime humanities, eco-criticism, early modern English literature, and shipwreck studies.\"—Josiah Blackmore, Harvard University\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Mentz has shaped an account that looks poised to become a key ecocritical text in the years to come.\"—\u003ci\u003eGlasgow Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Steve Mentz offers close and careful readings of early modern texts that are contextualized and scholarly, but also politically engaged.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe Sixteenth Century Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a remarkable and valuable scholarly work that offers much beyond its analysis of early modern texts and histories.\"—\u003ci\u003eRenaissance Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A thoughtful exploration of the modalities of how and why culinary practices and tastes changed over time.\"—\u003ci\u003eComitatus 48\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eShipwreck Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e offers useful challenges to early modernists to re- think our periodization schemes, to environmental historians to more fully consider the ocean, and to all readers to ponder how to stay afloat amidst our ecological crises.\"—\u003ci\u003eJournal of Early Modern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo Prefaces\u003cbr\u003eTheoretical Preface: Epochal Claims and the Age of Shipwreck\u003cbr\u003eNarrative Preface: Ulysses and the Global Ecology\u003cbr\u003e1. The Wet and the Dry: Shipwreck Hermeneutics\u003cbr\u003e2. Angry Gods: Theologies of the Ocean\u003cbr\u003e3. Isle of Tempests: Bermuda in the Early Modern Imagination\u003cbr\u003eInterchapter: Pearls That Were His Eyes\u003cbr\u003e4. Metis: Jeremy Roch\u003cbr\u003e5. Metis: Edward Barlow\u003cbr\u003eInterchapter: Philosopher at the Mast-Head\u003cbr\u003e6. “We Split”: Sea Poetry and Maritime Crisis\u003cbr\u003e7. Castaways: Surviving Disaster\u003cbr\u003eThree Short Epilogues\u003cbr\u003eThe Bright Light of Shipwreck\u003cbr\u003eThe Bookfish\u003cbr\u003eSeven Shipwrecked Ecological Truths\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405973430615,"sku":"9780816691067","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780816691067.jpg?v=1730494101","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shipwreck-modernity-9780816691067","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}