Slavish Shore: The Odyssey of Richard Henry Dana Jr by Jeffrey L. Amestoy

2016 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 843-845
Author(s):  
Brian Rouleau
Keyword(s):  
Richard Henry Dana

Richard Henry Dana, Jr., 1815-1882

1962 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 154
Author(s):  
Geoffrey T. Blodgett ◽  
Samuel Shapiro
Keyword(s):  
Richard Henry Dana

Voyages Through Literary Space: Mapping Globe and Nation in Richard Henry Dana’s Two Years Before the Mast

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-209
Author(s):  
Steffen Wöll
Keyword(s):  
New England ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Space Mapping ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
Mexican American War ◽  
Alta California ◽  
Representational Space ◽  
Merchant Ship ◽  
Richard Henry Dana

In his youth, Richard Henry Dana Jr. rebelled against the conventions of his upper-class New England upbringing when he signed on as a common sailor on a merchant ship bound for Alta California. The notes of his travels describe the strenuous life at sea, a captain’s sadistic streak, a crew’s mutinous tendencies, and California’s multicultural fur trade economy. First published in 1840, Dana’s travelogue Two Years Before the Mast became an unofficial guide for emigrants traversing the largely unmapped far western territories in the wake of the Mexican-American War. Connecting Dana’s widely-read narrative to current developments in the discipline, this article discusses strategies of visualizing literature and includes an exercise in ‘discursively mapping’ actual and imagined spaces and mobilities of the text. Considering strategies and toolsets from the digital humanities as well as theories such as Lefebvre’s concept of representational space, the article reflects on the methodological and practical pitfalls brought about by the visualization.

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