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White-jacket, Or, The World in a Man-of-war

Herman Melville

出版	Oxford University Press, 2000
主題	Fiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / LiteraryFiction / Sea StoriesLiterary Criticism / General
ISBN	01928380169780192838018
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2yYePdlqcAkC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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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 ofwhich 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 badlyon 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.