henryclervals:
“  Masterpost of Free Seafaring Literature & Theory
(Gothic Literature) (Romantic Literature)
Pre-1600s
The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius
The Odyssey by Homer
The Seafarer
The Libelle Of Englyshe Polycye
Sir Mortimer by Mary...

henryclervals:

Masterpost of Free Seafaring Literature & Theory
(Gothic Literature) (Romantic Literature)

Pre-1600s
The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius
The Odyssey by Homer
The Seafarer
The Libelle Of Englyshe Polycye 
Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley
The Sea-Hawk by Rafael Sabatini

1600s
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe & A General History of the Pyrates  by Daniel Defoe
Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini

1700s
Fanny Campbell, The Female Pirate Captain: A Tale of The Revolution by Maturin Murray Ballou
Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by Baron George Gordon Byron
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Boats of the “Glen Carrig” by William Hope Hodgson
The Pirate by Walter Scott
Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Treasure Island & Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Gulliver’s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

1800s
The Lighthouse by R. M. Ballantyne
The Pathfinder, Or The Inland Sea; The Pilot; The Two Admirals & Afloat ad Ashore by James Fenimore Cooper
Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo
Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
The Sea-Wolf by Jack London
The King’s Own; The Phantom Ship; Mr. Midshipman Easy & Poor Jack by Frederick Marryat
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe
The Wreck of the Grosvenor & An Ocean Tragedy by William Clark Russell
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

1900s
The Shadow Line: A Confession & Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
The Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers
Great Sea Stories, ed. Joseph Lewis French (anthology)

Non-Fiction
Under the Southern Cross by Maturin Murray Ballou
A Voyage to the South Sea & Mutiny on the Bounty by William Bligh
Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War by Herman Melville
Pincher Martin, O.D.: A Story of the Inner Life of the Royal Navy by H. Taprell Dorling

Academic Theory
A topographical approach to re-reading books about Islands in digital literary spaces by J. R. Carpenter

(Dis)Integrating Visions: South and Imperial/Colonial Difference in Dickens and Conrad by Luigi Cazzato

The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket: Psychological introspection in A Maritime Journey by Justine Shu-Ting Kao
“What if Icarus Hadn’t Hurtled into the Sea?” Some Remarks towards a Theory of Historical Narratology by Martin Klepper

Religious Pluralism in Yann Martel’s Life of Pi: A Case of Intertextual Correspondence with Swami Vivekananda’s Religious Philosophy by
John Kuriakose

The Rebirth of the Musical Author in Recent Fiction Written in English by Carmen Lara-Rallo
Arthur Morrison, Criminality, and Late-Victorian Maritime Subculture by Diana Maltz
What Does Melville See on the Ocean? by Stipe Grgas

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