Hero, Captain, and Stranger
Subtitle: Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville
By: Robert K. Martin.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation; Male friendship in literature; Sea stories, American -- History and criticism; Social problems in literature; Men in literature
Notes: Bibliography: p. [127]-139.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: 3; title: A note on the term "Homosexual"
pagenum: 12; title: The quest for a golden island
pagenum: 17; title: Facts and quests
pagenum: 17; title: Typee: the structure of the encounters
pagenum: 24; title: Chums: the search for a friend
pagenum: 40; title: Redburn: "So singular a couple"
pagenum: 41; title: White-Jacket: "A brother-band, hand in hand"
pagenum: 58; title: Moby-Dick: "Our hearts' honeymoon"
pagenum: 67; title: Losing hope
pagenum: 95; title: The dark years
pagenum: 95; title: Billy Budd: "But for fate and ban"
pagenum: 107; title: Coda
pagenum: 125; title: Notes
pagenum: 127; title: Index
pagenum: 141