White-jacket - Herman Melville - Livres - Oxford University Press - 9780192838018 - 30 mars 2000
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In 1843, after three years of voyaging in the South Seas, Melville signed up as an ordinary seaman on the man-of-war United States, and headed for home. What he observed on that trip formed the basis of White-Jacket, a success both as a story and as an expose of certain naval practices of which the public was only dimly aware. Melville's subtitle, 'The World in a Man-of-War', points to its broad theme: the autocratic, male regime aboard the Neversink is perhaps no more than a microcosm of pre-Civil War America. But under his scandalized liberalism, his desire to expose and to reform a barbaric system which reflects badly on the Declaration of Independence, runs an unspoken connection. The treatment meted out to the white men on the man-of-war is the same as that experienced by black slaves in every state. With hindsight, Melville's novel is double-edged. This is the only paperback edition currently available.

Médias Livres     Paperback Book   (Livre avec couverture souple et dos collé)
Validé 30 mars 2000
ISBN13 9780192838018
Éditeurs Oxford University Press
Pages 484
Dimensions 120 × 190 × 25 mm   ·   326 g
Langue et grammaire Anglais  

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