This collection explores nautical themes in a variety of literary contexts from multiple cultures. Including contributors from five continents, it emphasizes th

How did Jews understand sacred writing before the concepts of "Bible" and "book" emerged? The Literary Imagination in Jewish Antiquity challenges anachronistic

With long, solitary periods at sea, far from literary and cultural centers, sailors comprise a remarkable population of readers and writers. Although their cont

For a century, the history of the novel has been written in terms of nations and territories: the English novel, the French novel, the American novel. But what

A shipwrecked sailor disturbs the life of a journalist in a late nineteenth-century English seaside town in this reimagining of Ibsen’s The Lady from the Sea.