Island Representations in American Prose from Herman Melville to Jack London
by
Christopher McBride
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Looking at a diverse series of authors--Herman Melville, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Mark Twain, Charles Warren Stoddard, and Jack London--"The Colonizer Abroad" claims that as the U.S. emerged as a colonial power in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the literature of the sea became a...