"A Medium in Which I Seek Relief": Manuscripts of American Sailors 1919-1940Main MenuIntroductionPublication IntroductionTranscriptionsThe SailorsBeginning of PathThe ShipsBeginning of PathContext & AnalysisBeginning of PathSources / CitationsBeginning of PathAnnie Tummino3ab49bb2dc491ebce8f162f5757538b6789c8434
Dana Imitators
12020-03-25T05:29:30-07:00Annie Tummino3ab49bb2dc491ebce8f162f5757538b6789c8434331954Noteplain2020-03-25T05:45:58-07:00Annie Tummino3ab49bb2dc491ebce8f162f5757538b6789c8434"Such was the popularity of Two Years Before the Mast that a wave of Dana imitators advertised their own intimacy with the experience ship labor and titled their works accordingly: examples include Nicholas Isaac's Twenty Years Before the Mast (1845), Samuel Leech's Thirty Years from Home; or, A Voice from the Main Deck (1843), and William Nevens's Forty Years at Sea (1845)" (Blum 10). Cecil Northrop's unpublished 1919 manuscript - titled both "Two Months Before the Mast" and "Before the Mast to the West Coast" demonstrates the influence of such texts 75 years later.