Marquesan encounters
Subtitle: Melville and the meaning of civilization
By: T. Walter Herbert, Jr.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
Subjects: Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.; Civilization -- Philosophy.; Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) -- In literature.; Nuka Hiva (French Polynesia) -- History.; United States -- Intellectual life -- 1783-1865.
Description: Casts Melville's novels against the nineteenth-century travel narratives of various other missionaries and colonists, as well as the ethnographies of twentieth-century anthropologists.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 227-230.
Includes index.