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260 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801422805
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 August 1989
Description
The narrative of facts--probably best exemplified in the literature of exploration--was an immensely popular genre in mid-nineteenth-century America. In White Lies, John Samson offers full contextual readings of Melville's five major narratives of...
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260 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780801422805
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 15 August 1989
Description
The narrative of facts--probably best exemplified in the literature of exploration--was an immensely popular genre in mid-nineteenth-century America. In White Lies, John Samson offers full contextual readings of Melville's five major narratives of...