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Product Identifiers

PublisherCengage Learning

ISBN-100618300074

ISBN-139780618300075

eBay Product ID (ePID)30257288

Product Key Features

Book TitleTypee

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

TopicLanguage Experience Approach, General, Literary

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction, Language Arts & Disciplines, Education, Literary Collections

AuthorHerman. Melville, Geoffrey Sanborn, Paul Lauter

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14.9 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2002-114132

Dewey Edition20

Dewey DecimalFIC

Table Of ContentContents About 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 Cited

SynopsisThis 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., This New Riverside Edition of Herman Melville's Typee, edited by Geoffrey Sanborn (Bard College), is the first edition of the novel to place its topic -- the relationship between the "primitive" and the supposedly "civilized" -- in historical context. Fifteen selections from the writings of Melville's predecessors and contemporaries, together with chapters from Melville's Omoo, illustrations, and an array of scholarly essays, will help today's readers discover what is distinctive about Melville's handling of that topic -- as well as matters like sex, cannibalism, tattoo, and tabu. These selections will also help explain why the novel has retained an enthusiastic audience since it was first published in 1846. The volume also includes a transcription of the surviving fragment of the draft manuscript and a complete list of the excisions and revisions insisted on by Melville's original American publisher. Book jacket.

LC Classification NumberPS2384.T8 2004