The Sea in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis & critique of The Sea in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature.

The Sea in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature | Criticism

This literature criticism consists of approximately 10 pages of analysis & critique of The Sea in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature.
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SOURCE: “Captain Marryat and Sea Adventure,” in Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3, Fall, 1983, pp. 13-15 and 30.

In the following essay, Moss offers a brief overview of two sea adventure stories by Marryat: Masterman Ready and Mr. Midshipman Easy.

By the time that Charles Dickens had published A Holiday Romance (1868), the stock features of sea adventure stories were so well-known that his nine-year-old character, the would-be writer Robin Redforth, can tell the adventures of one Captain Boldheart and his encounters with cannibals, pirates, and worst of all, the Latin Grammar Master (who gets boiled in a pot by the cannibals). As Harvey Darton suggested, Redforth probably subscribed to The Boys of England, a magazine whose aim was to enthrall the youthful male reader with “wild and wonderful but healthy fiction.”1 This wild and wonderful fiction invariably included bold adventurous sea captains who battled bloodthirsty pirates led by a...

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