Down With the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster - Hardcover

Biel, Steven

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 039303965X ISBN 13: 9780393039658

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

Synopsis

Explores the way the Titanic disaster became an icon for a variety of groups--suffragists and their opponents, radicals, reformers, capitalists, critics of technology, racists and xenophobes--and shows how it remains a figure of everyday speech in the modern world. Tour.

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Review:

The largest movable object ever constructed by man when it was launched, the supposedly unsinkable Titanic has inspired novels, songs, poetry, movies, and even a mysterious black stoker named Shine who never existed on the actual ship. Steven Biel traces all these avatars and explores the social and cultural myths that the disaster gave rise to--and destroyed. The recent attempts to raise the Titanic's wreckage have demonstrated that the myths have not lost their power.

About the Author:

Steven Biel teaches writing at Harvard University.

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 039303965X
• ISBN 13: 9780393039658
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 300