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This is the first edition of Typee to place its most riveting featuresthe highly charged and complicated accounts of sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and tabooin a broad historical context. Twelve rich selections from the writings of Melvilles predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melvilles tr 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 Melvilles predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melvilles 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 Melvilles American publisher, further proof of how much his text was pushing the boundaries of acceptable literature of the day. Typee offers an alternative for instructors wishing to teach briefer Melville fiction.

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This is the first edition of Typee to place its most riveting featuresthe highly charged and complicated accounts of sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and tabooin a broad historical context. Twelve rich selections from the writings of Melvilles predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melvilles tr 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 Melvilles predecessors and contemporaries, along with eight illustrations, will help readers develop a fuller sense of where Melvilles 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 Melvilles American publisher, further proof of how much his text was pushing the boundaries of acceptable literature of the day. Typee offers an alternative for instructors wishing to teach briefer Melville fiction.
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Title Typee Height 198 mm
Herman Melville Width 129 mm
ISBN-13 9781853262302 Binding PAPERBACK
ISBN-10 #1853262307 Spine Width 12 mm
Publisher Wordsworth Classics Pages 418
Edition Availability In Stock

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