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Institute lecture/presentation slides - Mary Malloy

- Boston Harbor (PDF)

- African Americans (PDF)

- Introductory Lecture 7.14.09 (PDF)

- Columbus' Voyages (PDF)

- John Smith Advertisement (PDF)

Peg Brandon

- Nautical Chart and Publication resources

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Note to Participants:

Our course readings will include three books that we expect you to buy in advance:

-Captains' Courageous by Rudyard Kipling;
-Fishing Out of Stonington by Calabretta, Gordinier and Jensen; and
-Country of the Pointed Furs by Sarah Orne Jewett.

All of these books are readily available on Amazon.com. There are numerous editions of the Kipling and Jewett novels; any unabridged edition will be fine.

We will get started quickly when you arrive and two of the books on our reading list will be discussed at the end of the first week of the seminar. We will look at the classic film of Captains' Courageous and discuss the novel on Friday, 17 June, and though we suspect that most of you have probably read it at some point in the past, it will be a good way for all of us to orient ourselves to the maritime world of Homer's time. On that day we will also talk about the concluding chapter of Fishing Out of Stonington, and you might like to familiarize yourself with that book before you arrive at the seminar.

Sarah Orne Jewett's wonderful novel, Country of the Pointed Furs, will be at the heart of our discussion of changing maritime communities on Monday, 27 July. We will also read Jewett's poem "The Gloucester Mother," Robert Frost's Neither Out Far Nor In Deep, and the first four chapters of Moby Dick.

These shorter readings will all be available from our website, as will Goode's 1876 work on Fisheries,which we will talk about when you arrive. Please don't hesitate to contact Mary if you have any questions in advance about any of the readings.



Winslow Homer Paintings
A guide to online museum collections with selected paintings (PDF)


Required Readings (PDF)

Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck

Winslow Homer Essay - by Lloyd Goodrich

Winslow Homer and the Sea - by David Tatham

Homer Around 1900 - by Nicolai Cikovsky, Jr.

Essay: Homer's Wine-Dark Seas - by Marc Simpson

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Optional Readings (PDF)

Picture and Text: The Literary World of Winslow Homer - by Roger B. Stein

Checklist of images in the exhibit Winslow Homer at the National Gallery of Art

The Life and Work of Winslow Homer - by William Howe Downes

Winslow Homer at the North Woods Club - by David Tatham

Winslow Homer: 'Best Chronicler of the War' - by Lucretia Giese

Homer's Dressing for the Carnival - by David Park Curry

Winslow Homers' 'Impressionism' and its Relation to His Trip to France - by Henry Adams

Press Release: The Schooner Ernestina Returns to Massachusetts

List of readings on reserve at Umass Dartmouth's Claire T. Carney Library


Additional Readings
The principle reference work on American fisheries in the Age of Winslow Homer is George Brown Goode’s The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1887). This is a massive work in five sections; recommendations for browsing are below:

I. Natural History of Useful Aquatic Animals

II. A Geographical Review of the Fisheries Industries and Fishing Communities for the Year 1880 (Intro to Massachusetts Fisheries is on pages 127-145; Gloucester is on pages 157-191; New Bedford is on 276-288.)

III. The Fishing Grounds of North America (Charts of Eastern Seaboard are between pages 59-84.)

IV. The Fishermen of the United States (Mary recommends you browse 64-185.)

V. History and Methods of Fisheries (This volume has terrific illustrative plates; the table of contents is on pp 11-22 of the NOAA pdf.)

The entire work is available as downloadable pdfs at the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at:

http://celebrating200years.noaa.gov/rarebooks/fisheries/welcome.html

Section V, which has the terrific illustrations, and might give you inspiration and materials for lesson plans, is available in higher-quality images on the website of the Library at Mystic Seaport (but it isn’t as easy to download the whole volume):

http://library.mysticseaport.org/initiative/ImPage.cfm?BibID=211656&ChapterId=113


Other of our readings can be accessed online:

Jewett's “The Gloucester Mother” is available at
http://www.public.coe.edu/~theller/soj/poe/glouster.htm

Frost's "Neither Out Far Nor In Deep" is at
http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/7419-Robert-Frost-Neither-Out-Far-Nor-In-Deep

Moby-Dick (we will read the first four chapters) is available at
http://www.princeton.edu/~batke/moby/

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Bibliography

Calabretta, Fred. Fishing Out of Stonington. Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport, 2004.

Dana, Richard Henry, Jr. The Seaman’s Friend. Boston: Groom, 1857.

Frank, Stuart M. “The Origins of Engraved Pictorial Scrimshaw.” The Magazine Antiques (October 1992). pp. 510-521.

Sea Chanteys and Sailors Songs. Sharon, MA: Kendall Whaling Museum, 2000.

Frost, Robert. “Neither Out Far Nor In Deep.” A Further Range. New York: Henry Holt, 1936.

Goode, George Brown. The Fisheries and Fishery Industries of the United States. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1884-1887.

Jewett, Sarah Orne. Country of the Pointed Firs. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1910.

“The Gloucester Mother,” New York Times Saturday Review of Books, October 17, 1908, 1.

Kipling, Rudyard. Captains Courageous. New York: Century, 1897.

Malloy, Mary. African Americans in the Maritime Trades: A Guide to Resources in New England. 1990. Reprint, Sharon, MA: The Kendall Whaling Museum. 1993.

From Boston Harbor We Set Sail! A Curriculum Unit on African-American Sailors and the Maritime Community in Massachusetts. 1992. Reissued, Boston: African-American National Historic Site, and The Kendall Whaling Museum, and The Museum of Afro-American History, 1993.

Melville, Herman. Moby-Dick. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1851.

Simpson, Marc A. “Homer’s Wine-Dark Seas.” In Winslow Homer: Poet of the Sea, Sophie Lévy, ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.

Tatham, David. “Winslow Homer and the Sea.” In Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout’s Neck Observed. New York: Hudson Hill, 1990.