Ocean

Steve Mentz is Professor of English at St John’s University, USA. He is the author of four books, including Shipwreck Modernity: Ecologies of Globalization, 1550 – 1719 (2015), and the editor of four books. He blogs at The Bookfish (www.stevementz.com).

• Deterratorializing Preface 1. Two Origins: Alien or Core? 2. Seafood before History 3. Myth I: Odysseus, not Achilles4. Wet Globalization I: The Premodern Anthropocene 5. Sea Poetry I: Adamastor as Warning and Gate 6. Sailors: A Technological History 7. Interlude: Port of New York 8. Sea Poetry II: The Sea in Emily Dickinson 9. Myth II: Queequeg and Other Mermaids 10. Wet Globalization II: Containers 11. Blue Environmentalism: Rachel Carson 12. Swimmers: Immersive Histories AcknowledgmentsReading the Blue Humanities: A Bibliographical EssayIndex

Steve Mentz’s Ocean is both a lyrical and scholarly ode to the sea, encrusting and fluid.