Cannibal old me
Subtitle: spoken sources in Melville's early works
By: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Kent, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780873389785
Subjects: Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Technique; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Travel -- South Pacific Ocean; Melville, Herman, -- 1819-1891 -- Knowledge -- Language and languages; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 19th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: "Where the wild things are": questioning typee; title: "Six months at sea! yes, reader, as I live": sailor talk; title: "They say they don't like sailor's flesh, it's too salt": cannibal talk; title: "Their gestures shame the very brutes": missionary talk; title: "Cannibal old me": the development of Melville's narrative voice.