Hero, captain, and stranger : male friendship, social critique, and literary form in the sea novels of Herman Melville / Robert K. Martin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1986.Description: xvi, 144 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0807816728
  • 0807841463 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 813/.3 19
LOC classification:
  • PS2388.F74 M3 1986
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A note on the text -- Introduction -- A note on the term "Homosexual" -- The quest for a golden island -- Facts and quests -- Typee: the structure of the encounters -- Chums: the search for a friend -- Redburn: "So singular a couple" -- White-Jacket: "A brother-band, hand in hand" -- Moby-Dick: "Our hearts' honeymoon" -- Losing hope -- The dark years -- Billy Budd: "But for fate and ban" -- Coda -- Notes -- Index.
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Book Book Stonewall Non-Fiction PS 2388 MAR 1986 1 Available 850086741

Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-139) and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A note on the text -- Introduction -- A note on the term "Homosexual" -- The quest for a golden island -- Facts and quests -- Typee: the structure of the encounters -- Chums: the search for a friend -- Redburn: "So singular a couple" -- White-Jacket: "A brother-band, hand in hand" -- Moby-Dick: "Our hearts' honeymoon" -- Losing hope -- The dark years -- Billy Budd: "But for fate and ban" -- Coda -- Notes -- Index.

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