The Myth of the Titanic

St Martin's Press, United States, 2002,

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Author

Howells Richard

Publishers

St Martin's Press, United States, 2002

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

Very Good

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

8vo, 229 x 152 mm. pp.xii-212. ex-library stamps and labels, ow clean excellent.The first critical analysis of the Titanic as a modern myth, this book focuses on the second of the two Titanics. The first was the physical Titanic, the rusting remains of which can still be found twelve thousand feet below the north Atlantic. The second is the mythical Titanic which emerged just as its tangible predecessor slipped from view on April 15, 1912. It is the second of the two Titanics which remains the more interesting and which continues to carry cultural resonances today. "The Myth of the Titanic" begins with the launching of the "unsinkable ship" and ends with the outbreak of the "war to end all wars." It provides an insight into the particular culture of late-Edwardian Britain and beyond this draws far greater conclusions about the complex relationship between myth, history, popular culture and society as a whole.