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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
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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
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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
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American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / / Paul Lyons
American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / / Paul Lyons
Autore Lyons Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3295
Collana Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-203-69849-5
1-134-26415-1
1-280-55236-0
0-203-69864-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction : bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality -- Where "cannibalism" has been, tourism will be : forms and functions of American Pacificism -- Opening accounts in the South Seas : Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, James Fenimore Cooper's The crater, and the antebellum development of American Pacificism -- Lines of fright : fear, perception, performance, and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- A poetics of relation : friendships between Oceanians and U.S. citizens in the literature of encounter -- From man-eaters to spam-eaters : cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imaginings of Oceania -- Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in Cold War terms : A. Grove Day, James Michener, and histouricism -- Conclusion : changing pre-scriptions : varieties of antitourism in the contemporary literatures of Oceania.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910458007903321
Lyons Paul  
New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2006
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American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / / Paul Lyons
American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / / Paul Lyons
Autore Lyons Paul
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3295
Collana Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
ISBN 1-134-26414-3
0-203-69849-5
1-134-26415-1
1-280-55236-0
0-203-69864-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction : bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality -- Where "cannibalism" has been, tourism will be : forms and functions of American Pacificism -- Opening accounts in the South Seas : Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, James Fenimore Cooper's The crater, and the antebellum development of American Pacificism -- Lines of fright : fear, perception, performance, and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- A poetics of relation : friendships between Oceanians and U.S. citizens in the literature of encounter -- From man-eaters to spam-eaters : cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imaginings of Oceania -- Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in Cold War terms : A. Grove Day, James Michener, and histouricism -- Conclusion : changing pre-scriptions : varieties of antitourism in the contemporary literatures of Oceania.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910784429603321
Lyons Paul  
New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2006
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American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / / Paul Lyons
American Pacificism : Oceania in the U.S. imagination / / Paul Lyons
Autore Lyons Paul
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2006
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (289 p.)
Disciplina 810.9/3295
Collana Routledge research in postcolonial literatures
Soggetto topico American literature - History and criticism
ISBN 1-134-26414-3
0-203-69849-5
1-134-26415-1
1-280-55236-0
0-203-69864-9
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction : bound-together stories, varieties of ignorance, and the challenge of hospitality -- Where "cannibalism" has been, tourism will be : forms and functions of American Pacificism -- Opening accounts in the South Seas : Edgar Allan Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, James Fenimore Cooper's The crater, and the antebellum development of American Pacificism -- Lines of fright : fear, perception, performance, and the "seen" of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee -- A poetics of relation : friendships between Oceanians and U.S. citizens in the literature of encounter -- From man-eaters to spam-eaters : cannibal tours, lotus-eaters, and the (anti)development of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century imaginings of Oceania -- Redeeming Hawai'i (and Oceania) in Cold War terms : A. Grove Day, James Michener, and histouricism -- Conclusion : changing pre-scriptions : varieties of antitourism in the contemporary literatures of Oceania.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910815432703321
Lyons Paul  
New York ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2006
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Les premiers romans polynésiens : naissance d'une littérature de langue anglaise, 1948-1983
Les premiers romans polynésiens : naissance d'une littérature de langue anglaise, 1948-1983
Autore Lacabanne Sonia
Pubbl/distr/stampa Société des Océanistes, 1992
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (176 pages)
Collana Publications de la Société des Océanistes
Soggetto topico English
Languages & Literatures
English Literature
Soggetto non controllato littérature polynésienne
roman
ISBN 2-85430-065-3
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione fre
Record Nr. UNINA-9910137411103321
Lacabanne Sonia  
Société des Océanistes, 1992
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Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific : travel, empire, and the author's profession / / Roslyn Jolly
Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific : travel, empire, and the author's profession / / Roslyn Jolly
Autore Jolly Roslyn
Pubbl/distr/stampa London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (206 pages)
Disciplina 828.8
Soggetto topico Authors, Scottish - 19th century
ISBN 1-351-90274-1
1-315-24400-4
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto 1. 1887 : the turning point -- 2. The travel-writer as anthropologist : In the South Seas -- 3. Our man in Samoa : A footnote to history -- 4. The novelist as lawyer : the Times letters and Catriona -- 5. 1894 : repossession.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910154607603321
Jolly Roslyn  
London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2016
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Sexual antipodes [[electronic resource] ] : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / / Pamela Cheek
Sexual antipodes [[electronic resource] ] : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / / Pamela Cheek
Autore Cheek Pamela
Pubbl/distr/stampa Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina 820.9/3538
Soggetto topico English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Erotic literature, English - History and criticism
Sex in literature
French literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism
Erotic literature, French - History and criticism
Comparative literature - English and French
Comparative literature - French and English
Globalization - History - 18th century
Imperialism in literature
Sex customs in literature
Colonies in literature
Enlightenment
Soggetto genere / forma Electronic books.
ISBN 0-8047-8030-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. METROPOLITAN ALLEGORIES -- 1. National Character, Publicity and Sex -- 2. Public Women in the French Body Politic -- 3. Public Life in Enlightenment Pornography -- PART 2. ANTIPODES -- 4. The Sexual Nature of South Sea Islands -- 5. British Encounter: Recognizing Sensibility -- 6. French Encounter: Crafting Transparency -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910450103703321
Cheek Pamela  
Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2003
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Sexual antipodes [[electronic resource] ] : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / / Pamela Cheek
Sexual antipodes [[electronic resource] ] : enlightenment globalization and the placing of sex / / Pamela Cheek
Autore Cheek Pamela
Pubbl/distr/stampa Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2003
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (260 p.)
Disciplina 820.9/3538
Soggetto topico English literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Erotic literature, English - History and criticism
Sex in literature
French literature - 18th century - History and criticism
Travelers' writings, English - History and criticism
Travelers' writings, French - History and criticism
Erotic literature, French - History and criticism
Comparative literature - English and French
Comparative literature - French and English
Globalization - History - 18th century
Imperialism in literature
Sex customs in literature
Colonies in literature
Enlightenment
ISBN 0-8047-8030-7
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I. METROPOLITAN ALLEGORIES -- 1. National Character, Publicity and Sex -- 2. Public Women in the French Body Politic -- 3. Public Life in Enlightenment Pornography -- PART 2. ANTIPODES -- 4. The Sexual Nature of South Sea Islands -- 5. British Encounter: Recognizing Sensibility -- 6. French Encounter: Crafting Transparency -- Notes -- Index
Record Nr. UNINA-9910782923903321
Cheek Pamela  
Stanford, : Stanford University Press, 2003
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