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"Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten
| "Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - 19th century
Sea stories, American - History and criticism |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-63101-017-4
1-63101-016-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Hawaiian Diacriticals""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Pacific Subjects""; ""Chapter one: Typee: Melville's ""Contribution"" to the Well-Being of Native Hawaiians""; ""Chapter Two: Fayaway and Her Sisters: Gender, Popular Literature, and Manifest Destiny in the Pacific, 1848�1860""; ""Chapter Three: ""Depraved and Vicious"" / Urbane and Domestic: Herman Melville, Elizabeth Sanders, and Traditions of Figuring Hawaiians""
""Chapter Four: Sociolinguistic-Ethnohistorical Observations on Pidgin English in Typee and Omoo""""Chapter Five: ""He alo Ä? he alo"": Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific Conference""; ""Dismembering LÄ?hui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887""; ""Part II: Colonial Appropriations and Resistance""; ""Chapter Six: ""A work I Have Never Happened to Meet""; Melville'S versions of Porter in Typee""; ""Chapter Seven: Plagiarizing Polynesia: Decolonization in Melville's Omoo Borrowings""; ""Chapter Eight: Mapping the Marquesas for Typee"" ""Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville's Pacific Novels""""Chapter Ten: Rozoko in the Pacific: Melville's Natural History of Creation""; ""Part III: Empire, Race, and Nation""; ""Chapter Eleven: Travels in the Interior: Typee, Pym, and the Limits of Transculturation""; ""Chapter Twelve: ""Duty and Profit Hand in Hand"": Melville, Whaling, and the Failure of Heroic Materialism""; ""Chapter Thirteen: ""Strike through the Unreasoning Masks"": Moby-Dick and Japan""; ""Chapter Fourteen: ""The Subordinate Phantoms"": Melville's Conflicted Response to Asia in Moby-Dick"" ""Chapter Fifteen: ""Facts Picked Up in the Pacific"": Fragmentation, Deformation, and the (Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in ""The Encantadas""""""Chapter Sixteen: Of Mimicry and Masques: Benito Cereno and the National Allegory""; ""Part IV: Postcolonial Reflections""; ""Chapter Seventeen: Poem as Palm: Polynesia and Melville's Turn to Poetry""; ""Chapter Eighteen: Tribal Queequeg and Daniel Quinn: Glimpsing Melville's ""Undiscovered Prime""""; ""Chapter Nineteen: Taking the Polynesians to Heart: Melville's Typee and Merwin's The Folding Cliffs"" ""Chapter Twenty: Marquesan Survivals: Melville and the Sacrifice of Reality Television""""Chapter Twenty-One: Lines of Dissent: Oceanic Tattoo and the Colonial Contest""; ""Chapter Twenty-Two: Moby-Dick and the War on Terror""; ""Contributors""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index"" |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910465182203321 |
| Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten
| "Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - 19th century
Sea stories, American - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-63101-017-4
1-63101-016-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Hawaiian Diacriticals -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Pacific Subjects -- Chapter one: Typee: Melville's Contribution to the Well-Being of Native Hawaiians -- Chapter Two: Fayaway and Her Sisters: Gender, Popular Literature, and Manifest Destiny in the Pacific, 1848-1860 -- Chapter Three: Depraved and Vicious / Urbane and Domestic: Herman Melville, Elizabeth Sanders, and Traditions of Figuring Hawaiians --Chapter Four: Sociolinguistic-Ethnohistorical Observations on Pidgin English in Typee and Omoo --Chapter Five: He alo ahe alo: Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific Conference -- Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 -- Part II: Colonial Appropriations and Resistance -- Chapter Six: A work I Have Never Happened to Meet -- Melville's versions of Porter in Typee -- Chapter Seven: Plagiarizing Polynesia: Decolonization in Melville's Omoo Borrowings -- Chapter Eight: Mapping the Marquesas for Typee --Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville's Pacific Novels -- Chapter Ten: Rozoko in the Pacific: Melville's Natural History of Creation -- Part III: Empire, Race, and Nation -- Chapter Eleven: Travels in the Interior: Typee, Pym, and the Limits of Transculturation -- Chapter Twelve: Duty and Profit Hand in Hand: Melville, Whaling, and the Failure of Heroic Materialism -- Chapter Thirteen: Strike through the Unreasoning Masks: Moby-Dick and Japan -- Chapter Fourteen: The Subordinate Phantoms: Melville's Conflicted Response to Asia in Moby-Dick --Chapter Fifteen: Facts Picked Up in the Pacific: Fragmentation, Deformation, and the (Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in The Encantadas -- Chapter Sixteen: Of Mimicry and Masques: Benito Cereno and the National Allegory -- Part IV: Postcolonial Reflections -- Chapter Seventeen: Poem as Palm: Polynesia and Melville's Turn to Poetry -- Chapter Eighteen: Tribal Queequeg and Daniel Quinn: Glimpsing Melville's Undiscovered Prime -- Chapter Nineteen: Taking the Polynesians to Heart: Melville's Typee and Merwin's The Folding Cliffs --Chapter Twenty: Marquesan Survivals: Melville and the Sacrifice of Reality Television -- Chapter Twenty-One: Lines of Dissent: Oceanic Tattoo and the Colonial Contest -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Moby-Dick and the War on Terror -- Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910792169103321 |
| Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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"Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten
| "Whole oceans away" : Melville and the Pacific / / edited by Jill Barnum, Wyn Kelley, and Christopher Sten |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (373 p.) |
| Disciplina | 813.3 |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - 19th century
Sea stories, American - History and criticism |
| ISBN |
1-63101-017-4
1-63101-016-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Hawaiian Diacriticals -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I: Pacific Subjects -- Chapter one: Typee: Melville's Contribution to the Well-Being of Native Hawaiians -- Chapter Two: Fayaway and Her Sisters: Gender, Popular Literature, and Manifest Destiny in the Pacific, 1848-1860 -- Chapter Three: Depraved and Vicious / Urbane and Domestic: Herman Melville, Elizabeth Sanders, and Traditions of Figuring Hawaiians --Chapter Four: Sociolinguistic-Ethnohistorical Observations on Pidgin English in Typee and Omoo --Chapter Five: He alo ahe alo: Jonathan Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio at the Melville and the Pacific Conference -- Dismembering Lahui: A History of the Hawaiian Nation to 1887 -- Part II: Colonial Appropriations and Resistance -- Chapter Six: A work I Have Never Happened to Meet -- Melville's versions of Porter in Typee -- Chapter Seven: Plagiarizing Polynesia: Decolonization in Melville's Omoo Borrowings -- Chapter Eight: Mapping the Marquesas for Typee --Chapter Nine: Mapping Imagination and Experience in Melville's Pacific Novels -- Chapter Ten: Rozoko in the Pacific: Melville's Natural History of Creation -- Part III: Empire, Race, and Nation -- Chapter Eleven: Travels in the Interior: Typee, Pym, and the Limits of Transculturation -- Chapter Twelve: Duty and Profit Hand in Hand: Melville, Whaling, and the Failure of Heroic Materialism -- Chapter Thirteen: Strike through the Unreasoning Masks: Moby-Dick and Japan -- Chapter Fourteen: The Subordinate Phantoms: Melville's Conflicted Response to Asia in Moby-Dick --Chapter Fifteen: Facts Picked Up in the Pacific: Fragmentation, Deformation, and the (Cultural) Uses of Enchantment in The Encantadas -- Chapter Sixteen: Of Mimicry and Masques: Benito Cereno and the National Allegory -- Part IV: Postcolonial Reflections -- Chapter Seventeen: Poem as Palm: Polynesia and Melville's Turn to Poetry -- Chapter Eighteen: Tribal Queequeg and Daniel Quinn: Glimpsing Melville's Undiscovered Prime -- Chapter Nineteen: Taking the Polynesians to Heart: Melville's Typee and Merwin's The Folding Cliffs --Chapter Twenty: Marquesan Survivals: Melville and the Sacrifice of Reality Television -- Chapter Twenty-One: Lines of Dissent: Oceanic Tattoo and the Colonial Contest -- Chapter Twenty-Two: Moby-Dick and the War on Terror -- Contributors -- Works Cited -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812284303321 |
| Kent, Ohio : , : The Kent State University Press, , 2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The Bounty from the beach : cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary essays / / edited by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega
| The Bounty from the beach : cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary essays / / edited by Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega |
| Autore | Largeaud-Ortega Sylvie |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | ANU Press, 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (272 pages) |
| Disciplina | 623.8225 |
| Collana | Pacific Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Bounty Mutiny, 1789
Colonization - Social aspects - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Pacific history
Colonisation |
| ISBN | 1-76046-245-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Introduction / Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega -- 1. Contextualising the Bounty in Pacific Maritime Culture / Jean-Claude Teriierooiterai -- 2. Pitcairn before the Mutineers: Revisiting the Isolation of a Polynesian Island / Guillaume Molle and Aymeric Hermann -- 3. Reading the Bodies of the Bounty Mutineers / Rachael Utting -- 4. Nordhoff and Halls Mutiny on the Bounty: A Piece of Colonial Historical Fiction / Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega -- 5. A Ship is Burning: Jack Londons The Seed of McCoy (Tales of the Pacific, 1911), or Sailing Away from Pitcairn / Jean-Pierre Naugrette -- 6. Brando on the Bounty / Roslyn Jolly and Simon Petch -- 7. Bounty Relics: Trading in the Legacy of Myth and Mutiny / Adrian Young. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910295760003321 |
Largeaud-Ortega Sylvie
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| ANU Press, 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The cruise of the Snark [[electronic resource] ] : Jack London's South sea adventure / / by Jack London
| The cruise of the Snark [[electronic resource] ] : Jack London's South sea adventure / / by Jack London |
| Autore | London Jack <1876-1916.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Barbara, Calif., : Narrative Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - 20th century
Voyages and travels |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910449762803321 |
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London Jack <1876-1916.>
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| Santa Barbara, Calif., : Narrative Press, c2001 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The cruise of the Snark [[electronic resource] ] : Jack London's South sea adventure / / by Jack London
| The cruise of the Snark [[electronic resource] ] : Jack London's South sea adventure / / by Jack London |
| Autore | London Jack <1876-1916.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Santa Barbara, Calif., : Narrative Press, c2001 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, American - 20th century
Voyages and travels |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777066403321 |
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London Jack <1876-1916.>
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| Santa Barbara, Calif., : Narrative Press, c2001 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In the south seas / / Robert Louis Stevenson
| In the south seas / / Robert Louis Stevenson |
| Autore | Stevenson Robert Louis <1850-1894.> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Auckland : , : The Floating Press, , 1908 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (444 pages) |
| Disciplina |
919.6
919.6304 |
| Soggetto topico |
Authors, Scottish - 19th century
East and West Travelers' writings, American Travelers' writings, European |
| ISBN | 1-77556-701-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Title; Contents; PART I THE MARQUESAS; Chapter I An Island Landfall; Chapter II Making Friends; Chapter III The Maroon; Chapter IV Death; Chapter V Depopulation; Chapter VI Chiefs and Tapus; Chapter VII Hatiheu; Chapter VIII The Port of Entry; Chapter IX The House of Temoana; Chapter X A Portrait and a Story; Chapter XI Long-Pig-A Cannibal High Place; Chapter XII The Story of a Plantation; Chapter XIII Characters; Chapter XIV In a Cannibal Valley; Chapter XV The Two Chiefs of Atuona; PART II THE PAUMOTUS; Chapter I The Dangerous Archipelago-Atolls at a Distance
Chapter II Fakarava: An Atoll at Hand Chapter III A House to Let in a Low Island; Chapter IV Traits and Sects in the Paumotus; Chapter V A Paumotuan Funeral; Chapter VI Graveyard Stories; PART III THE GILBERTS; Chapter I Butaritari; Chapter II The Four Brothers; Chapter III Around Our House; Chapter IV A Tale of a Tapu; Chapter V A Tale of a Tapu- Continued; Chapter VI The Five Days' Festival; Chapter VII Husband and Wife; PART IV THE GILBERTS- APEMAMA; Chapter I The King of Apemama: The Royal Trader; Chapter II The King of Apemama: Foundation of Equator Town Chapter III The King of Apemama: The Palace of Many Women Chapter IV The King of Apemama: Equator Town and the Palace; Chapter V King and Commons; Chapter VI The King of Apemama: Devil-Work; Chapter VII The King of Apemama |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910789045303321 |
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Stevenson Robert Louis <1850-1894.>
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| Auckland : , : The Floating Press, , 1908 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The making of John Ledyard [[electronic resource] ] : empire and ambition in the life of an early American traveler / / Edward G. Gray
| The making of John Ledyard [[electronic resource] ] : empire and ambition in the life of an early American traveler / / Edward G. Gray |
| Autore | Gray Edward G. <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 224 p.) ) : ill., maps |
| Disciplina |
910.92
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Explorers - United States
Travelers - United States Voyages and travels - History - 18th century |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-73525-6
9786611735258 0-300-13781-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON QUOTATIONS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I. A Colonial Childhood -- CHAPTER II. On Stage at Dartmouth College -- CHAPTER III. Serving Captain Cook with Honor -- CHAPTER IV. Seeking Distinction with the Pen Aboard the Resolution -- CHAPTER V. Following the Revolution Home -- CHAPTER VI. From Author to Fur Trader -- CHAPTER VII. Becoming a Traveler in Thomas Jefferson's Paris -- CHAPTER VIII. Across the Russian Empire -- CHAPTER IX. Despotism and Human Nature in Catherine II's Russia -- CHAPTER X. To Africa -- Epilogue: MEMORIES OF THE TRAVELER -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451947103321 |
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Gray Edward G. <1964->
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007 | ||
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The making of John Ledyard [[electronic resource] ] : empire and ambition in the life of an early American traveler / / Edward G. Gray
| The making of John Ledyard [[electronic resource] ] : empire and ambition in the life of an early American traveler / / Edward G. Gray |
| Autore | Gray Edward G. <1964-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 224 p.) ) : ill., maps |
| Disciplina |
910.92
B |
| Soggetto topico |
Explorers - United States
Travelers - United States Voyages and travels - History - 18th century |
| ISBN |
1-281-73525-6
9786611735258 0-300-13781-8 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- A NOTE ON QUOTATIONS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER I. A Colonial Childhood -- CHAPTER II. On Stage at Dartmouth College -- CHAPTER III. Serving Captain Cook with Honor -- CHAPTER IV. Seeking Distinction with the Pen Aboard the Resolution -- CHAPTER V. Following the Revolution Home -- CHAPTER VI. From Author to Fur Trader -- CHAPTER VII. Becoming a Traveler in Thomas Jefferson's Paris -- CHAPTER VIII. Across the Russian Empire -- CHAPTER IX. Despotism and Human Nature in Catherine II's Russia -- CHAPTER X. To Africa -- Epilogue: MEMORIES OF THE TRAVELER -- NOTES -- INDEX |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778282803321 |
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Gray Edward G. <1964->
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| New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2007 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Pacific missionary George Brown 1835-1917 : Wesleyan Methodist Church / / Margaret Reeson
| Pacific missionary George Brown 1835-1917 : Wesleyan Methodist Church / / Margaret Reeson |
| Autore | Reeson Margaret <1938-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , [2013] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Disciplina | 266.7092 |
| Soggetto topico |
Missionaries - England
Missionaries - Oceania |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Biographies. |
| ISBN | 1-921862-98-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 16. 'Rev. Dr. Georgium Brown' --17. 'Sanctified audacity' --18. 'Something of the vagabond' --19. 'The Venerable General Secretary' -- 20. 'Grand old man of Methodist Missions; --21. 'A creed wide enough' --22. 'Beloved chief and father -- Epilogue --Bibliography. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910142125503321 |
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Reeson Margaret <1938->
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| Canberra, Australian Capital Territory : , : Australian National University E Press, , [2013] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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