Down with the Old Canoe : A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
ISBN: 9780393340808 | 0393340805
Edition: 00Format: Trade Paper
Publisher: W W NORTON
Pub. Date: 3/17/2012
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Everyone from suffragists to their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets found moral and cultural lessons in the sinking of the Titanic. In a new edition that both commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the disaster and elaborates, in a revised afterword, on the ship's continued impact on the public imagination (evidenced by the Titanic mania evoked by James Cameron'... MORE
| Meanings | |
| Foreword: Nature Jeers At Our Folly | p. 3 |
| April 1912 | p. 9 |
| The Rule of the Sea and Land | p. 23 |
| Mammon | p. 59 |
| Interword: A Noble Structure of Enduring Stone | p. 85 |
| Unknown and Unsung | p. 97 |
| Memories | |
| A Night To Remember | p. 135 |
| Enthusiasts | p. 167 |
| Mission To Destiny | p. 197 | ... MORE
| Afterword: Titanic Mania | p. 221 |
| List of Abbreviations | p. 235 |
| Notes | p. 239 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 281 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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Steven Biel is the executive director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and a senior lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University.
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