Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster - Softcover

Steven Biel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0393340805 ISBN 13: 9780393340808

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2012

Synopsis

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's 1997 film), Steven Biel explores the Titanic in all its complexity and contradictions.

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Review:

An important book. The 'old canoe' may have gone down, but she refuses to remain submerged; Steven Biel has added greatly to her buoyancy. --Beryl Bainbridge "...an intriguing study of the myths and meanings which have come to cluster around the wreck." Erica Wagner, The Times

About the Author:

Steven Biel is the executive director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and a senior lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0393340805
• ISBN 13: 9780393340808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320