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100 1 $aBiel, Steven,$d1960-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92048227
245 10 $aDown with the old canoe :$ba cultural history of the Titanic disaster /$cSteven Biel.
260 $aNew York :$bW.W. Norton & Co.,$c[1996], ©1996.
300 $avii, 300 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 239-280) and index.
520 $a"I suggest, henceforth, when a woman talks woman's rights, she be answered with the word Titanic, nothing more - just Titanic," wrote a St. Louis man to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1912. He was not alone in mining the ship for a metaphor.
520 8 $aEveryone found ammunition in the Titanic - suffragists and their opponents; radicals, reformers, and capitalists; critics of technology and modern life; racists and xenophobes and champions of racial and ethnic equality; editorial writers and folk singers, preachers and poets.
520 8 $aProtestant 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.
520 8 $aA 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.
610 20 $aTitanic (Steamship)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50082026
650 0 $aShipwrecks$zNorth Atlantic Ocean.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008111634
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