White-Jacket Or, the World In a Man-Of-War . . . by Melville, Herman

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White-jacket; or, The world in a man-of-war. by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

White Jacket; or, The world in a man-of-war. by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

White-jacket : or, The world in a man-of-war / by Melville, Herman, 1819-1891

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The tailoring of Melville's White-jacket, by Vincent, Howard P. 1904-1985

Subjects: “…Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. White-jacket.…”

The Cambridge companion to Herman Melville /

Table of Contents: “…"Race" in Typee and White-Jacket /…”

Herman Melville : the contemporary reviews /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Typee -- Omoo -- Mardi -- Redburn -- White-jacket -- Moby-dick -- Pierre -- Israel Potter -- The Piazza Tales -- The confidence-man -- Battle-pieces and aspects of the war -- Clarel -- John Marr and other sailors with some sea-pieces -- Billy Budd.…”
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Law in art : Melville's major fiction and nineteenth-century American law / by Weiner, Susan, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Typee: An early look at the relationship between literature and law -- White-Jacket: or the world of ordered conflict -- Moby-Dick: Imaginative discourse as a challenge to legal discourse -- Pierre: The novel and legal formalism -- "Bartleby": Representation, reproduction and the law -- "Benito Cereno" and the failure of law -- Law, Literature, and the space between: The case of Billy Budd.…”

Melville : fashioning in modernity / by Matterson, Stephen

Table of Contents: “…A very strange compound indeed: Carlyle, Redburn and White-Jacket -- 3. He was an European, and had Cloaths on: Typee -- 4. …”

Melville's anatomies / by Otter, Samuel, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Of cannibalism: eating the body in Cook, Krusenstern, and Porter ; Of tattooing: reading the body in Langsdorff and Melville -- Jumping out of one's skin in White-Jacket. The anatomical impulse: ship, state, and body ; Slaves: the scene of flogging in Douglass, Pennington, and Northup ; Sailors: the analogy with slavery in Leech, McNally, Browne, and Dana ; Flogged free: White-Jacket's emancipation ; Sailing on -- Getting inside heads in Moby-Dick. …”

Melville's anatomies / by Otter, Samuel, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Of cannibalism: eating the body in Cook, Krusenstern, and Porter ; Of tattooing: reading the body in Langsdorff and Melville -- Jumping out of one's skin in White-Jacket. The anatomical impulse: ship, state, and body ; Slaves: the scene of flogging in Douglass, Pennington, and Northup ; Sailors: the analogy with slavery in Leech, McNally, Browne, and Dana ; Flogged free: White-Jacket's emancipation ; Sailing on -- Getting inside heads in Moby-Dick. …”
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Healthcare without borders : understanding Cuban medical internationalism / by Kirk, John M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: setting the scene -- Origins and evolution: from "beggar's helper" to a "white-jacketed army" -- Elam, a school for all nations -- Dealing with the "handicapped" of ALBA: setting the balance right -- Operación milagro: bringing vision to millions -- Cuba's international disaster responses: from 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade -- South-South cooperation in biotechnology: medicine for the masses -- The Cuba-Venezuela medical partnership: the Castro-Chávez dream lives on -- Cuba's role in Haiti: hurricanes, an earthquake, and cholera -- Cuba's medical internationalism in the South Pacific -- The children of Chernobyl: 25,000 treated -- Cuba's medical internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida -- Conclusion: no longer the world's best-kept secret.…”
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Healthcare without borders : understanding Cuban medical internationalism / by Kirk, John M., 1951-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: setting the scene -- Origins and evolution: from "beggar's helper" to a "white-jacketed army" -- Elam, a school for all nations -- Dealing with the "handicapped" of ALBA: setting the balance right -- Operación milagro: bringing vision to millions -- Cuba's international disaster responses: from 1960s Chile to the 2005 Henry Reeve Brigade -- South-South cooperation in biotechnology: medicine for the masses -- The Cuba-Venezuela medical partnership: the Castro-Chávez dream lives on -- Cuba's role in Haiti: hurricanes, an earthquake, and cholera -- Cuba's medical internationalism in the South Pacific -- The children of Chernobyl: 25,000 treated -- Cuba's medical internationalism in El Salvador since Hurricane Ida -- Conclusion: no longer the world's best-kept secret.…”
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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. …”
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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / by Hayes, Kevin J.

Table of Contents: “…Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. …”
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The American mystery : American literature from Emerson to DeLillo / by Tanner, Tony

Table of Contents: “…Bell -- Lustres and condiments: Ralph Waldo Emerson in his Essays -- 'A summer in the country': Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Blithedale romance -- 'Nothing but cakes and ale': Herman Melville's White-jacket -- 'All interweavingly working together': Herman Melville's Moby-Dick -- Melville's counterfeit detector: The confidence-man -- Henry James: 'The story in it' - and the story without it -- Henry James's 'saddest story': The other house -- Henry James and Shakespeare -- 'Feelings of middle life': William Dean Howells's Indian summer -- 'The story of the moon that never rose': F. …”

The new Cambridge companion to Herman Melville /

Table of Contents: “…Melville and the nonhuman world / Geoffrey Sanborn -- Melville and oceanic studies / Hester Blum -- Democracy and Melville's aesthetics / Jennifer Greiman -- White-jacket : Telling who is - and aint - a slave / Jeannine Marie Delombard -- Reading Moby-Dick / Samuel Otter -- Pierre, life history, and the obscure / Wyn Kelley -- "Bartleby" and the magazine fiction / Graham Thompson -- Skepticism and The Confidence-Man / Maurice S. …”

Herman Melville : an introduction / by Kelley, Wyn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Melville's Life -- Agatha and the Invention of Narrative -- Melville's Early Yarns -- Making Literary Use of the Story: Typee and Omoo -- A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents: Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth: Moby-Dick -- All Tender Obligations: Pierre -- Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- A Leaf from Professional Experience: Short Fiction of the 1850s -- Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions: Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- Melville's Later Career -- Fulness & Veins & Beauty: Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- Different Considerations: Late Poetry -- Instinct with Significance: Billy Budd -- Afterword: Restoring to You Your Own Property: Owning Melville -- Appendix: Agatha Correspondence.…”
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Herman Melville : an introduction / by Kelley, Wyn

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Melville's Life -- "Agatha" and the Invention of Narrative -- Melville's Early Yarns -- "Making Literary Use of the Story": Typee and Omoo -- "A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents": Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket -- Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick and Pierre -- "So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth": Moby-Dick -- "All Tender Obligations": Pierre -- Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man -- "A Leaf from Professional Experience": Short Fiction of the 1850s -- "Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions": Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man -- Melville's Later Career -- "Fulness & Veins & Beauty": Battle-Pieces and Clarel -- "Different Considerations": Late Poetry -- "Instinct with Significance": Billy Budd -- Afterword: "Restoring to You Your Own Property": Owning Melville -- Appendix: "Agatha" Correspondence.…”

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville.

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