Typee: Complete Text with Introduction, Historical Contexts, Critical EssaysHoughton Mifflin, 2004 - 399 oldal This 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. |
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... short time remit in some degree their watchfulness over my movements , and I should then be the better enabled to avail myself of any opportunity which presented itself for escape . I de- termined , therefore , to make the best of a bad ...
... short time remit in some degree their watchfulness over my movements , and I should then be the better enabled to avail myself of any opportunity which presented itself for escape . I de- termined , therefore , to make the best of a bad ...
158. oldal
... short tunic of spotless white tappa , and some of them su- peradded to this a mantle of the same material , tied in an elaborate bow upon the left shoulder , and falling about the figure in picturesque folds . Thus arrayed , I would ...
... short tunic of spotless white tappa , and some of them su- peradded to this a mantle of the same material , tied in an elaborate bow upon the left shoulder , and falling about the figure in picturesque folds . Thus arrayed , I would ...
194. oldal
... short , constituted the chief differ- ences perceivable in the relative wealth of the people in Typee . [ Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity : she has not even her full share of them . They flourish in greater ...
... short , constituted the chief differ- ences perceivable in the relative wealth of the people in Typee . [ Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity : she has not even her full share of them . They flourish in greater ...
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A Note on the Text | 15 |
A Sequel to Typee | 240 |
The Draft Manuscript | 256 |
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