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Summary:

"Myths and stereotypes surrounding seafarers in the age of sail persist to this day. Sailors were celebrated for their courage, strength, and skill, yet condemned for militancy, vice, and fecklessness. As sail gave way to steam, sailing-ship mariners became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heritage, representing a timeless, heroic masculinity, in an era when the modernising industrial world was challenging assumptions about gender, class, work, and society. Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail argues that maritime writing moulded the reading public's image of the merchant seaman. Authors chronicled their lives as they grew from boy sailors to trained seafarers, telling colourful tales of the men they worked with - most never doubted that the sailing ship had made them better men. Their testimony reinforced and preserved conservative perspectives on seafaring manhood as Britain's economic and technological priorities continued to evolve in the new steamship age. Offering a gender analysis on the image of the seafarer, Making Men in the Age of Sail brings the history of British sailors into wider debates about modernity and masculinity."-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Seafaring Boys
• Seafaring Men
• Shipmates and Others
• Becoming
• Men of Rank
• Elements, Beliefs, and Wonders
• Facing the Deep
• Traditions, Rituals, and Cultures
• Looking Landward.

Author/Creator:

Milne, Graeme J. , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Making men in the age of sail: masculinity, memoir, and the British merchant seafarer, 1860-1914 [by Milne, G.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Making men in the age of sail [by Milne, G.J.] (Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2024 — ISBN 0228021308; ISBN 9780228021308; OCLC Number 1409618517)

Subjects:

Merchant mariners — Great Britain — History — 19th century

Merchant mariners — Great Britain — History — 20th century

Seafaring life — Great Britain — History — 19th century

Seafaring life — Great Britain — History — 20th century

Masculinity — Great Britain — History — 19th century

Masculinity — Great Britain — History — 20th century

Autobiography

Great Britain — History, Naval

Gender expression

1800-1999

Seafaring life

Masculinity

Naval history

Merchant mariners

Great Britain

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

ISBNs:

9780228021841 (EPUB)
0228021847
9780228021834 (ePDF)
0228021839

OCLC Numbers:

1410696822