Down with the old canoe: a cultural history of the Titanic disaster, with a new afterword

Nature jeers at our folly -- April 1912 -- The rule of the sea and land -- Mammon -- A noble structure of enduring stone -- Unknown and unsung -- A night to remember -- Enthusiasts -- Mission to destiny -- Titanic mania.;In a new edition that both commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of the disaster and elaborates, in a revised afterword, on the ship's continued impact on the public imagination (evidenced by the Titanic mania evoked by James Cameron's 1997 film), Steven Biel explores the Titanic in all its complexity and contradictions.