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Down with the Old Canoe: Cultural History of the "Titanic" Disaster Book

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.Read More

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  • Product Description

    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.

  • 039303965X
  • 9780393039658
  • S Biel
  • 2 April 1997
  • W. W. Norton & Co.
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 300
  • 1st Edition.
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