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Stephen Donovan, Shockwaves: The Interrupted Sea-Journeys of Rudyard Kipling and Morgan Robertson, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Volume 49, Issue 4, October 2013, Pages 393–405, https://doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqt033
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This essay takes Nikola Tesla's proposal to weaponize the sea itself as the starting-point for an examination of changing perceptions of the ocean wave at the turn of the twentieth century. Focusing on a trio of maritime tales by Rudyard Kipling and Morgan Robertson, it argues that the ‘routinization’ of sea travel, coupled with historic developments in communications and technology, prompted these writers to explore the multiple significances of sea-journeys interrupted by monstrous waves.
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