11 Facts About Nautical fiction

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Nautical fiction, frequently naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highlights nautical culture in these environments.

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The settings of nautical fiction vary greatly, including merchant ships, liners, naval ships, fishing vessels, life boats, etc.

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Development of nautical fiction follows with the development of the English language novel and while the tradition is mainly British and North American, there are significant works from literatures in Japan, France, Scandinavia, and other Western traditions.

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4.

Nautical fiction usually includes distinctive themes, such as a focus on masculinity and heroism, investigations of social hierarchies, and the psychological struggles of the individual in the hostile environment of the sea.

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Conventionally sea fiction encompasses novels in the vein of Marryat, Conrad, Melville, Forester and O'Brian: novels which are principally set on the sea, and immerse the characters in nautical culture.

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6.

In Britain, the genesis of a nautical fiction tradition is often attributed to Frederick Marryat.

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7.

Nautical fiction wrote In Hazard about a merchant ship caught in a hurricane.

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8.

Critic Jerome de Groot identifies naval historical fiction, like Forester's and O'Brian's, as epitomizing the kinds of fiction marketed to men, and nautical fiction being one of the subgenre's most frequently marketed towards men.

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Harcourt published L A Meyer's Bloody Jack, the first novel in the young adult fiction series set in the early 19th century centering around the titular character Mary (Jacky) Faber.

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Until the 20th century nautical fiction focused on officer protagonists and John Peck suggests, that "the idea of the gentleman is absolutely central in maritime fiction".

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Distinction between nautical fiction and other fiction merely using the sea as a setting or backdrop is an investment in nautical detail.

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