Add to ORKGOn January 3, 1841, Herman Melville boarded the whaler Acushnet and left the harbor of New Bedford. Traveling through the South Pacific, Melville spent time in the Marquesas, Tahiti, and the Sandwich Islands where he witnessed the missionary efforts among the islanders. The religious conversion and acculturation of the Polynesian natives led Melville to question the missionaries\u27 activities. The different cultures of these islands increased Melville\u27s already skeptical outlook on the standards his own culture insisted that he follow. Experiencing both the tranquil Typee Valley and the civilized island of Tahiti, Melville felt compelled to write about his island adventures in his first two books, Typee (1846) and Omoo (1847). Observi...
FOR the peoples of the Pacific Islands the nineteenth century was a period of bewildering and demor...
A writer may well wish to put into the revised edition what he has in his first edition, and yet he ...
Before 1850 Herman Melville was a fairly typical American male, in that he was rebellious and needed...
Missionary and colonizing efforts in the South Pacific during the first half of the nineteenth centu...
Missionary and colonizing efforts in the South Pacific during the first half of the nineteenth centu...
In both Typee and Omoo (1847), Melville’s narrators provide long, detailed descriptions concerning t...
Omoo is a disjointed narrative that jumps from one scene to another in an attempt to expand on vario...
Herman Melville’s novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, is said to depict common travel writing t...
By the time Herman Melville introduced American readers to Queequeg, the Polynesian harpooner in Mob...
In 1767 Samuel Wallis disembarked in Tahiti. One year later, Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived o...
The rudiments of the Typee plot are two escapes: the narrator’s flight from a whaling ship, and his ...
A writer may well wish to put into the revised edition what he has in his first edition, and yet he ...
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after c...
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans...
Shocked by the abject failure of the London Missionary Society’s (LMS) first overseas mission to Pol...
FOR the peoples of the Pacific Islands the nineteenth century was a period of bewildering and demor...
A writer may well wish to put into the revised edition what he has in his first edition, and yet he ...
Before 1850 Herman Melville was a fairly typical American male, in that he was rebellious and needed...
Missionary and colonizing efforts in the South Pacific during the first half of the nineteenth centu...
Missionary and colonizing efforts in the South Pacific during the first half of the nineteenth centu...
In both Typee and Omoo (1847), Melville’s narrators provide long, detailed descriptions concerning t...
Omoo is a disjointed narrative that jumps from one scene to another in an attempt to expand on vario...
Herman Melville’s novel, Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, is said to depict common travel writing t...
By the time Herman Melville introduced American readers to Queequeg, the Polynesian harpooner in Mob...
In 1767 Samuel Wallis disembarked in Tahiti. One year later, Louis Antoine de Bougainville arrived o...
The rudiments of the Typee plot are two escapes: the narrator’s flight from a whaling ship, and his ...
A writer may well wish to put into the revised edition what he has in his first edition, and yet he ...
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, epidemics ravaged South Pacific islands after c...
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans...
Shocked by the abject failure of the London Missionary Society’s (LMS) first overseas mission to Pol...
FOR the peoples of the Pacific Islands the nineteenth century was a period of bewildering and demor...
A writer may well wish to put into the revised edition what he has in his first edition, and yet he ...
Before 1850 Herman Melville was a fairly typical American male, in that he was rebellious and needed...