Hero, captain, and stranger : male friendship, social critique, and literary form in the sea novels of Herman Melville / Robert K. Martin.
Material type: TextPublication details: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c1986.Description: xvi, 144 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 0807816728
- 0807841463 (pbk.)
- 813/.3 19
- PS2388.F74 M3 1986
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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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