The Nautilus
Volume V
Spring 2014
ESSAYS
“Twentieth-Century Editors and the Re-envisioning of Chanties:
7
“Disciplining Bad Girls: Three Hundred Years of Trying Anne Bonny
and Mary Read,” LuElla D’Amico
52
“White-Jacket’s Jacket and the Literature of Impressment,” Ellie Stedall
71
BOOK REVIEWS
The Sounding of the Whale: Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century,
by D. Graham Burnett. Reviewed by Mary K. Bercaw Edwards.
100
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps, by Chet Van Duzer.
Reviewed by Jason Hine.
103
Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire
of Culture, by Samuel Baker. Reviewed by Lissette López Szwydky.
106
Antebellum at Sea: Maritime Fantasies in Nineteenth-Century America,
by Jason Berger. Reviewed by Jocelyn L. Bailey.
109
The Business of Transatlantic Migration Between Europe and the United
States, by Drew Keeling. Reviewed by Susan J. Jerome.
111
Buccaneers and Privateers: The Story of the English Sea Rover, by Richard
Frohock. Reviewed by Mariette Ogg.
113
Shakespeare’s Ocean: An Ecocrtical Exploration, by Dan Brayton.
Reviewed by Faye Ringel.
115
Running Silver: Restoring Atlantic Rivers and their Great Fish Migrations,
by John Waldman. Reviewed by Karen Alexander.
118
Sea Monsters: A Voyage around the World’s Most Beguiling Map,
by Joseph Nigg. Reviewed by Paul Gazzoli.
120
The ‘City of Ottawa’: The Story of a Sailing Ship, by Judith Samuel.
Reviewed by Richard J. King.
122
Melville as Poet: The Art of “Pulsed Life,” edited by Sanford E. Marovitz.
Reviewed by Timothy Marr.
124
The Devil’s Cormorant: A Natural History, by Richard J. King.
Reviewed by Kathryn Mudgett.
126
The Nautilus:
A Maritime Journal of Literature,
History, and Culture
Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.
—Alexander Pope, Essay on Man
Editor-in-Chief
Kathryn Mudgett
Book Review Editor
Robert D. Madison
Editorial Advisory Board
Wayne Franklin
Professor of English
University of Connecticut
William Fowler
Professor of History
Northeastern University
Hugh Egan
Professor of English
Ithaca College
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel
Professor of Humanities
and Department Chair
Massachusetts Maritime Academy
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards
Associate Professor of English
University of Connecticut
William Thiesen
Atlantic Area Historian
United States Coast Guard
Robert D. Madison
Professor Emeritus
United States Naval Academy
Glenn Gordinier
Robert G. Albion Historian
and Co-Director, Munson Institute
Mystic Seaport
The Nautilus: A Maritime Journal of Literature, History, and Culture (ISSN: 19476329) is published annually in the spring by the Massachusetts Maritime AcadeDrive, Buzzards Bay, MA 02532. E-mail: [email protected]. Web site: nautilus.
maritime.edu.
The Nautilus is a peer-reviewed journal publishing scholarship on the literature,
history, and culture of the sea. Scholars are invited to submit essays, notes, and
documents on any literary or historical period as it relates to humankind’s rela-