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Melville's anatomies / Samuel Otter.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, �1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 369 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520918016
  • 0520918010
  • 058525026X
  • 9780585250267
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Melville's anatomies.DDC classification:
  • 813/.3 21
LOC classification:
  • PS2388.B57 O88 1999eb
Other classification:
  • 18.06
Online resources:
Contents:
Losing face in Typee. 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. Middle-aged man with a skull: Samuel George ; Morton and the quest for cranial contents ; Dry bones: the laws of anatomy in antebellum ethnology ; Skin deep: the ethnological critiques of Douglass, Brown, and Apess ; A sight of sights to see: cetology and ethnology in Moby-Dick ; To look and to know -- Penetrating eyes in Pierre. American views: Natural features and national character ; The loving eye: Thomas Cole and the visual embrace ; The hungry eye: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the taste for scenery ; The dissolving eye: Susan Cooper and the persistence of vision ; Strange eye-fish with wings: Melville's clogged optics -- Inscribed hearts in Pierre. Sentiment American style: the heart on the page ; Men of feeling: Donald Grant Mitchell's treatises concerning the sentimental affections ; A little half-worn shoe: Fanny Fern's emotional investments ; Blood, ink, and tears: the strangling diastole and systole of Pierre.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-354) and index.

Losing face in Typee. 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. Middle-aged man with a skull: Samuel George ; Morton and the quest for cranial contents ; Dry bones: the laws of anatomy in antebellum ethnology ; Skin deep: the ethnological critiques of Douglass, Brown, and Apess ; A sight of sights to see: cetology and ethnology in Moby-Dick ; To look and to know -- Penetrating eyes in Pierre. American views: Natural features and national character ; The loving eye: Thomas Cole and the visual embrace ; The hungry eye: Nathaniel Parker Willis and the taste for scenery ; The dissolving eye: Susan Cooper and the persistence of vision ; Strange eye-fish with wings: Melville's clogged optics -- Inscribed hearts in Pierre. Sentiment American style: the heart on the page ; Men of feeling: Donald Grant Mitchell's treatises concerning the sentimental affections ; A little half-worn shoe: Fanny Fern's emotional investments ; Blood, ink, and tears: the strangling diastole and systole of Pierre.

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