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Down With the Old Canoe – A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster
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Protestant sermons used the Titanic to condemn the budding consumer society (“We know the end of . . . the undisturbed sensualists. As they sail the sea of life we know absolutely that their ship will meet disaster.”).
African American toasts and working-class ballads made the ship emblematic of the foolishness of white people and the greed of the rich.
A 1950s revival framed the disaster as an “older kind of disaster in which people had time to die.”
An ever-increasing number of Titanic buffs find heroism and order in the tale.
Still in the headlines (“Titanic Baby Found Alive!” the Weekly World News declares) and a figure of everyday speech (“rearranging deck chairs . . .”), the Titanic disaster echoes within a richly diverse, paradoxical, and fascinating America.
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Review
“Biel shows–with style and wit, as well as scholarship–how the sinking of a ship nearly a century ago resonates through popular culture today.”
“STEVEN BIEL’S MASTERFUL cultural analysis … is brimming over with wit and insight.”
About the Author
Steven Biel is the executive director of the Mahindra Humanities Center and a senior lecturer on history and literature at Harvard University.
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| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition (31 Dec. 1997) |
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| Paperback | 320 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0393316769 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0393316766 |
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