Steve Mentz's Ocean is both a lyrical and scholarly ode to the sea, encrusting and fluid. The Millions
Deterratorializing Preface1. Two Origins: Alien or Core?2. Seafood before History3. Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles4. Wet Globalization I: The Premodern Anthropocene5. Sea Poetry I: Adamastor as Warning and Gate6. Sailors: A Technological History7. Interlude: Port of New York8. Sea Poetry II: The Sea in Emily Dickinson9. Myth II: Queequeg and Other Mermaids10. Wet Globalization II: Containers11. Blue Environmentalism: Rachel Carson12. Swimmers: Immersive HistoriesAcknowledgmentsReading the Blue Humanities: A Bibliographical EssayIndex
Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John's University, USA. He is the author of three books, including Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550 - 1719 (2015), and the editor of four books. His maritime research has been supported by the Folger Shakespeare Library, the John Carter Brown Library, Mystic Seaport, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Maritime Museum in London.
