White-jacket, or, The World in a man-of-war
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White-jacket, or, The World in a man-of-war
（Oxford world's classics）
Oxford University Press, 2000
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World in a man-of-war
White-jacket
White-jacket
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Reprint of 1990 ed
Bibliography: p. xxxvii-xxxviii
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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.
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