Long-term fellowships at a center for advanced study specializing in the history of the Americas before ca. 1825

FAIN: RA-20215-00

John Carter Brown Library (Providence, RI 02906)
Norman Fiering (Project Director: September 1999 to November 2012)
Margot M. Nishimura (Project Director: November 2012 to November 2003)

The equivalent of fifteen fellowship-months for each of two years.

Associated Products

The Novel and the Sea (Book)
Title: The Novel and the Sea
Author: Margaret Cohen
Abstract: Examining works across two centuries, The Novel and the Sea recounts the novel's rise, told from the perspective of the ship's deck and the allure of the oceans in the modern cultural imagination. Cohen explores how Robinson Crusoe competed with the best-selling nautical literature of the time by dramatizing remarkable conditions, from the wonders of unknown lands to storms, shipwrecks, and pirates. She considers James Fenimore Cooper's refashioning of the adventure novel in postcolonial America, and a change in literary poetics toward new frontiers and to the maritime labor and technology of the nineteenth century. Cohen shows how Jules Verne reworked adventures at sea into science fiction; how Melville, Hugo, and Conrad navigated the foggy waters of language and thought; and how detective and spy fiction built on sea fiction's problem-solving devices. She also discusses the transformation of the ocean from a theater of skilled work to an environment of pristine nature and the sublime.
Year: 2012
Primary URL: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9320.html
Secondary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/novel-and-the-sea/oclc/587249007&referer=brief_results
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Type: Single author monograph
ISBN: 9780691140650

Prizes

Barbara and George Perkins Prize
Date: 1/15/2012
Organization: The International Society for the Study of Narrative
Abstract: In 1994, acting on the suggestion of its President, Janice Carlisle, The International Society for the Study of Narrative established an award that "honors the many past and continuing contributions of Barbara Perkins and George Perkins to the development and success of the Society, including the founding of both The Journal of Narrative Technique and the Society itself. The award, presented annually to the book that makes the most significant contribution to the study of narrative," offers a prize of $1000 plus a contribution of $400 toward expenses for the winning author to attend the Narrative Conference where the award will be presented.

Louis Gottschalk Prize
Date: 3/28/2011
Organization: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Abstract: This prize is for an outstanding historical or critical study on the eighteenth century and carries an award of $1,000.

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