Romantic-Era Shipwreck Narratives (Radical Recoveries)

Featuring fascinating and deeply moving accounts of shipwrecks, this compendium offers various perspectives—from popular culture and sentimentalism to the literature of religious and moral improvement—on the British Romantic era. With maritime narratives that possess complex ideological dimensions and detail the construction of British attitudes of the era, this resource provides a selection of exciting pieces from a once popular, but now largely forgotten, genre.