The Democratic Vistas of the Body: Re-Reading the Body in Herman Melville's Typee
The Democratic Vistas of the Body: Re-Reading the Body in Herman Melville's Typee
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Abingdon: Routledge
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English
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Abingdon: Routledge
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Herman Melville's first South Sea novel Typee (1846) is complicit with and subversive of the traditional American concept of the body. By working within the framework of the traditional body narrative (body-soul opposition), Melville aims to introduce the body as a site of political change and democracy. Melville and his narrator, the white America...
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The Democratic Vistas of the Body: Re-Reading the Body in Herman Melville's Typee
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TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1080_20512856_2015_1103978
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_crossref_primary_10_1080_20512856_2015_1103978
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2051-2856
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2051-2864
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10.1080/20512856.2015.1103978
