Scurvy : the Disease of Discovery / by Lamb, Jonathan

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Whaling will never do for me : the American whaleman in the nineteenth century / by Busch, Briton Cooper

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The science of sacrifice : American literature and modern social theory / by Mizruchi, Susan L.

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Melville's mirrors : literary criticism and America's most elusive author / by Yothers, Brian, 1975-

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The interconnections between Victorian writers, artists and places /

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The short story: fiction in transition. by Taylor, John Chesley

The postcolonial epic : from Melville to Walcott and Ghosh / by Roy, Sneharika

American audacity : in defense of literary daring / by Giraldi, William

Fictions of mass democracy in nineteenth-century America / by Margolis, Stacey, 1966-

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Melville and the idea of blackness : race and imperialism in nineteenth-century America / by Freeburg, Christopher

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American terror : the feeling of thinking in Edwards, Poe, and Melville / by Hurh, Paul

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Body trade : captivity, cannibalism and colonialism in the Pacific /

Table of Contents: “…Idriess', Coral Sea adventures / Robert Dixon -- Lines of fright : fear, perception and the 'seen' of cannibalism in Charles Wilkes's Narrative and Herman Melville's Typee / Paul Lyons -- Captivating fictions : Younâh! …”
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Antebellum at sea : maritime fantasies in nineteenth-century America / by Berger, Jason, 1976-

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The new Melville studies /

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for Texts Cited; Chapter 1 Introduction: Melville Studies, Old and New; Part I Feeling with Melville; Chapter 2 Paranoid Reading, Surface Pleasures, and Deadpan Humor in The Confidence-Man; Chapter 3 Melville and His Flowers; Chapter 4 Pip and the Sounds of Blackness in Moby-Dick; Chapter 5 Melville after Secularism; Chapter 6 Marginal States: Herman Melville in the Marquesas, 1842; Part II Thinking with Melville; Chapter 7 Perfectionist Pierre…”
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U.S.-Middle East historical encounters : a critical survey /

Table of Contents: “…Foster -- American Palestine : Herman Melville, Mark Twain, and the Holy Land in the nineteenth-century American Imagination / Hilton Obenzinger -- "Drying up the Euphrates" : Muslims, Millennialism, and Early American missionary enterprise / Timothy Marr -- Missionaries, Peasants, and the protection problem : negotiating Coptic reform in nineteenth-century Egypt / Paul D. …”
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Great sea stories / by French, Joseph Lewis, 1858-1936

Table of Contents: “…/ Charles Kingsley -- The club-hauling of the Diomede (from Peter Simple) / Frederick Marryat -- The cruise of the Torch (from Tom Cringle's log) / Michael Scott -- The merchantman and the pirate (from Hard cash) / Charles Reade -- Narrative of the mutiny of the Bounty (from Chamber's miscellany) / Anonymous -- The wreck of the Royal Caroline (from The red rover) / James Fenimore Cooper -- The capture of the great white whale (from Moby Dick) / Herman Melville -- The corvette Claymore (from Ninety-three) / Victor Hugo -- The merchants' cup (from Broken stowage) / David W. …”
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Studies in the short story,

Table of Contents: “…Scott Fitzgerald -- The short happy life of Francis Macomber -- The tell-tale heart (c. 1840) / Edgar Allan Poe -- My kinsman, Major Molineux (1837) / Nathaniel Hawthorne -- Bartleby (1853) / Herman Melville -- The lament (c. 1885) / Anton Chekhov -- The real thing (1893) / Henry James -- Heart of darkness (1899) / Joseph Conrad -- The open boat (1897) / Stephen Crane -- The gentleman from San Francisco (c. 1917) / Ivan Bunin -- A little cloud (1905) / James Joyce -- Petrified man (1939) / Eudora Welty -- Goodbye, my brother (1946) / John Cheever -- The unspoiled reaction (1946) / Mary McCarthy -- The patented gate and the mean hamburger (1947) / Robert Penn Warren -- Who made yellow roses yellow? …”

The virtues of disillusionment / by Heighton, Steven, 1961-2022

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Whitewashing America : material culture and race in the antebellum imagination / by Heneghan, Bridget T.

Hold fast your crown / by Haenel, Yannick, 1967-

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