TY - BOOK ID - 144608961 TI - Making Men in the Age of Sail : Masculinity, Memoir, and the British Merchant Seafarer, 1860-1914 PY - 2024 SN - 0228021839 0228021847 PB - Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Social sciences. KW - Joseph Conrad. KW - Maritime. KW - apprenticeship. KW - autobiography. KW - ethnicity. KW - folklore. KW - fraternity. KW - friendship. KW - gender. KW - literature. KW - manhood. KW - navigation. KW - racism. KW - religion. KW - sailing. KW - seafaring. KW - sexuality. KW - shanties. KW - steamships. KW - superstition. KW - violence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:144608961 AB - Drawing on British seafaring memoirs from the late-nineteenth century, Making Men in the Age of Sail explores how sailors became nostalgic symbols of maritime prowess and heroic masculinity. The book argues that maritime writing preserved ideas of masculinity in an era when modernization was challenging assumptions about gender, class, and society. ER -