Bibliograph

Melville in the south seas,, by Charles Roberts Anderson

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Melville in the south seas,, by Charles Roberts Anderson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 497-505)

resource.dissertationNote

Issued also as thesis (Ph. D.)--Columbia University.

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Melville in the south seas,

Nature of contents

bibliographytheses

Oclc number

2206817

Responsibility statement

by Charles Roberts Anderson

Series statement

Columbia University studies in English and comparative literature, no. 138

Summary

Anderson writes of Melville as a simpler and more convincing person than the conventional dramatization. His South Seas experiences, stripped of their romantic trappings, are bright with high-hearted adventure

Table Of Contents

Outward bound. Why Ishmael went to sea ; New Bedford ; A whale laboratory ; Facts and symbols in Moby-Dick -- "The man who lived among cannibals." The French at Nukahiva ; Missionaries and cannibals ; The noble savages of Typee Valley ; Truth and fiction in Typee -- "Mr. Omoo," the rover. Mutiny on the Lucy Ann ; Tahiti in 1842 ; Beachcomber ; Honolulu -- Homeward bound. Farewell to the Pacific ; The frigate United States ; White-Jacket as romance ; White-Jacket as propaganda

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