Salutau monde: Aquapelagic instruction in the red funnel magazine

Abstract

Between 1905 and 1909, the New Zealand-based Union Steam Ship Company published a monthly "glossy, " the Red Funnel Magazine. On this seagoing platform, Annie Eliza Trimble offered literary instruction in c. 20 essays. These essays offer a peep, only, at her enthusiasm for the US poet Walt Whitman. Subtle too, though, is these essays' reach toward the land-sea-human assemblages that have been termed aquapelagic. My findings about these essays extend research on aquapelagity, Whitman fans, educational journalism, the Union Steam Ship Company, socialistic journalism, early New Zealand literature, and island stories. © 2020 Shima Publications (Australia).