The Titanic Reader

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Contents

Introduction

1. Leviathan of the Year
   • The Mechanical Age’ THOMAS CARLYLE
   • The Starting Point MICHAEL DAVIE
   • ‘Atlantic Liners’
   • The Miracle FILSON YOUNG
   • Eager for the Baptism
   • A Launch to Remember WILLIAM MACQUITTY
2. The Gilded Age
   • Accommodation of Unrivalled Magnificence
   • The Commissariat R. A. FLETCHER
   • A Floating Town R. A. FLETCHER
   • All the World in Little FILSON YOUNG
   • The Gilded Age GEOFFREY MARCUS
   • The Elite of the Mercantile Marine GEOFFRE MARCUS
   • Letters from Titanic GEORGE BEEDEM
   • Alias Titanic WALTER LORD
   • ‘Sailing Day GEOFFREY MARCUS
3. The Machine Stops
   • An Appalling Winter RICHARD BROWN
   • Bergs, Growlers and Field Ice
   • The Collision WALTER LORD
   • The Last Good News WALTER LORD
   • Come Quick – Danger
   • The End FILSON YOUNG
   • Marine Disasters from City of Rio de Janeiro to Titanic
   • The Blackest Night ELIZABETH W. SHUTES
   • An Ideal Night LAWRENCE BEESLEY
   • Charlotte Collyer’s Story CHARLOTTE COLLYER
   • Only One Thing to Do CHARLES LIGHTOLLER
   • Out of the Deep ARCHIBALD GRACIE
4. Cities in Shock
   • The Marvellous Hertzian Waves
   • The Siege of Bowling Green
   • A Town of Mourning
   • Wall Street Report THOMAS C. SHOTWELL
   • Belfast and the Disaster
   • Wall Street Report
   • A Transcendent Calamity HENRY ARTHUR JONES
   • This Kind of a Time HAROLD BRIDE
   • Wall Street Report THOMAS C. SHOTWELL
   • The Search for the Dead RICHARD BROWN
   • Wall Street Report THOMAS C. SHOTWELL
   • St Paul’s Cathedral, Friday 19 April
   • This Sunken Palace of the Sea CHARLES H. PARKHURST
5. A Knot of Puzzles
   • Banging On? Charles Lightoller’s British Testimony
   • A Sharp Lookout for Small Ice: Frederick Fleet’s American Testimony
   • The Return of Boat 14: Harold Lowe’s American Testimony
   • A Capitalist Disaster
   • The Vicious Class Antagonism BEN TILLETT
   • Lost and Saved Statistics by Class, Sex and Age
   • Terra Incognita DANIEL ALLEN BUTLER
   • The Donkevman’s Affidavit: Ernest Gill’s Testimony
   • “The Middle Watch’ GEOFFREY MARCUS
   • The Mystery of Indifference ALDEN SMITH
   • Marketing Disaster: The Marconi-New York Times Affair
   • These Bumble-like Proceedings JOSEPH CONRAD
   • Cross-Criticisms: England and America G. K. CHESTERTON
   • The New Seamanship JOSEPH CONRAD
6. Hymns and Heroism
   • The White Star Chief
   • Mr Ismay’s Duty
   • Statement Issued by J. Bruce Ismay on 21 April 1912
   • ‘After the Titanic DEREK MAHON
   • ‘The Titanic: Some Unmentioned Morals’ GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
   • The Whole Wonderful Epic SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
   • Beating the Hysterics GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
   • The Unsentimental Truth JOSEPH CONRAD
   • The Last Gig JOHN MAXTONE-GRAHAM
   • ‘Autumn’ LOUIS VON ESCH
   • Hymns That Help W. T. STEAD
7. The Man’s Game
   • My Beautiful Nightdress
   • ‘Suffrage Dealt Blow by Women of Titanic EMMA GOLDMAN
   • Enough Said’ CLARK MCADAMS
   • ‘Masculine Chivalry’
   • ‘God’s Noblemen Aid Women and Children’ HELEN CHURCHILL CANDEE
   • “The Titanic RABBIT BROWN
   • “Titanic’ LEADBELLY
   • The Negro Stoker LOGAN MARSHALL
   • ‘Shine’ BOBBY LEWIS
   • ‘Dark Prophecy: I Sing of Shine’ ETHERIDGE KNIGHT
   • The Genius of the Anglo-Saxon
   • The Progress of the Race
   • ‘A Lot of Italians, Latin People: Harold Lowe’s Testimony and Retraction
8. Anticipations and Realizations
   • ‘Manifesto of Futurism’ F. T. MARINETTI
   • More than Ever a Mechanical Age JOHN JACOB ASTOR
   • “The Berg: A Dream’ HERMAN MELVILLE
   • “The Convergence of the Twain’ THOMAS HARDY
   • Titanic and the Imagination SIR H. RIDER HAGGARD
   • The Wreck of the Titan, Or, Futility MORGAN ROBERTSON
   • The Story Stead Could Not File By Deadline W. T. STEAD
   • The Swift Poetry of Peril G. K. CHESTERTON
   • ‘A Titanic Lesson’
   • Nature and Catastrophe ANDREW WILSON
9. War and Peace
   • Titanic in the Cold War STEVEN BIEL
   • Stamped American from Stem to Stern MEREDITH WILLSON AND RICHARD MORRIS
   • The Titanic E. J. PRATT
   • ‘Ode on the Loss of the Titanic GEOFFREY HILL
   • The Sinking of the Titanic HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER
10. Sea of Controversy
    • The Discovery of Titanic ROBERT D. BALLARD WITH RICK ARCHBOLD
    • Down to the Great Ship’ WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR
    • ‘Statement Before the [U.S.] House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee 20 October 1985 ROBERT D. BALLARD
    • “The Case for the National Maritime Museum’ STEPHEN DEUCHAR
11. Ship of State
    • The Death of Thomas Andrews SHAN F. BULLOCK
    • The Iceberg STEWART PARKER
12. The Titanic Effect
    • Death of an Old Lady LOUIS MACNEICE
    • ‘The Titanic Effect’ KENNETH E. F. WATT
    • Meadow, Island, Iceberg ELIAS CANETTI
    • The American Hero and His Mechanical Bride: Gender Myths of the Titanic Disaster’ ANNE. LARABEE
    • Tragedy and Farce JULIAN BARNES