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OverviewThis is the first edition of Typee to place its most riveting features the highly charged and complicated accounts of sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and taboo in a broad historical context. Twelve rich selections from the writings of Melville's predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melville's treatment of these topics is unconventional and why it matters. The volume also includes a complete list of the excisions and revisions insisted on by Melville's American publisher, further proof of how much his text was pushing the boundaries of acceptable literature of the day. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Herman Melville , Paul Lauter , Geoffrey SanbornPublisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Imprint: Houghton Mifflin Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.422kg ISBN: 9780618300075ISBN 10: 0618300074 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 06 January 2003 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsAbout This Series Introduction A Note on the Text I. Typee The Story of Toby: A Sequel to Typee II. Revising Typee Minor Changes in the Revised Edition The Draft Manuscript George Lillie Craik, From The New Zealanders (1830) III. Contexts and Comments Sex Georg H. Von Langsdorff, From Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World (1813) Hiram Bingham, From A Residence of Twenty-One Years in the Sandwich Islands (1847) Herman Melville, From Omoo; A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) David A. Chappell, From Shipboard Relations between Pacific Island Women and Euroamerican Men, 1767-1887 (1992) Cannibalism A.W. Humphreys, The King of the Cannibal Islands (1830) Josiah Priest, From Slavery, as it Relates to the Negro, or African Race (1843) William H. Prescott, From History of the Conquest of Mexico (1843) William Desborough Cooley, Manners and Customs of the New Zealanders (1840) Robert Thomson, From The Marquesas Islands: Their Description and Early History (1841) Gananath Obeyesekere, From 'British Cannibals': Contemplation of an Event in the Death and Resurrection of James Cook, Explorer (1992) Tattooing John Coulter, From Adventures in the Pacific (1845) Herman Melville, From Omoo; A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (1847) Nicholas Thomas, From The Art of the Body (1995) Tapu Mary Elizabeth Barker Parker, From Journal and Intimate Notebook (1833) Charles Stewart, From A Visit to the South Seas (1831) David Porter, From Journal of a Cruize Made to the Pacific Ocean (1815) Alex Calder, From 'The Thrice-Mysterious Taboo': Melville's Typee and the Perception of Culture (1999) Works CitedReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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