Shipboard Literary Cultures: Reading, Writing, and Performing at Sea

Foreword: Literary Provisioning at Sea
Acknowledgements
Praise for Shipboard Literary Cultures
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Shipboard Literary Cultures and the Stain of the Sea
	Hydrophasia
	Writing at Sea
	Performing at Sea
	Reading and the Sea
	Shipboard Hierarchies and Literary Culture
	Being at Sea
	Ships as ‘Places’
	The Sea as Element
	The Voyage Ahead
	Bibliography
Chapter 2: Books with Providence: The Power and Influence of Book Ownership on a Seventeenth-Century Man-of-War
	Puritanism, Reading, and Chaplains at Sea
	Syms’s Books
	Books, Authority, and Command over Shipboard Space
	Bibliography
Chapter 3: The Sailing Ship as a School of Virtue
	Space for Reading and Writing
	Ship Time for Reading and Writing
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 4: Recognition and Anonymity: Shipboard Theatricals and Newspapers Aboard USS Macedonian
	The Journal of Lt Charles Gauntt, September 1818 to January 1821
	Not Crossing the Line
	Communal Interpretation
	The Aggregate
	Bunnell, the Aggregate, and Intertheatricality
	Bibliography
Chapter 5: Shipboard Diaries as Navigational Instruments
	Edward Beck
	Margaret MacGillivray
	Writing on Water
	Bibliography
Chapter 6: The Maritime Self on the American Whaleship
	The Whaler’s World
	Love, Loneliness, the Lydia
	The Roman: Maritime Menageries
	Bibliography
Chapter 7: Writing the Cabin as Cloister in the Diary of Sister Mary Paul Mulquin
	Shipboard Spaces of Sociability and Seclusion
	Religious Life and Ritual
	Writing at Sea
	Sacred Trials and Worldly Rituals
	Bibliography
Chapter 8: The Torrens as a Space of Writing, Reading, and Performance
	The Extant Records
	Shipboard Spaces
	The Diaries
	Writing on the Torrens
	Reading on the Torrens
	The Circulation of Books
	Collective Reading
	Music
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 9: Communities of Print at Sea and Beyond: Troopship Magazines in World War I
	Oceanic Texts and the Literary Worlds of Soldiers During World War I
	Forms, Functions and Material Aspects of Troopship Magazines
	Communal Efforts: Troopship Magazines and Shipboard Spaces
	Experiences of Transit
	Readers and Uses Beyond the Ship and the Voyage
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 10: Learning at Sea: Education Aboard the 1926–27 Floating University
	A Shipboard University
	Art and Design
	The Planet Players
	Captain and Crew
	Students versus Tourists
	Examination and Experience
	Conclusion
	Bibliography
Chapter 11: Afterword: Down to the Sea in Ships
	Bibliography
Index