Geoffrey Sanborn

Whipscars and Tattoos

The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Through careful historical research, Geoffrey Sanborn reveals how James Fenimore Cooper and Herman Melville relied heavily on contemporary accounts of the indigenous natives of New Zealand, the Maori, to develop their iconic characters in The Last of the Mohicans and Moby-Dick.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 141mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9780199985760
• ISBN-10: 0199985766
• Artikelnr.: 36722983

Autorenporträt

Geoffrey Sanborn is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is the author of Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader and the coeditor, with Samuel Otter, of Melville and Aesthetics.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Glossary
Introduction: Grand, Ungodly, Godlike Men
Chapter 1: Te Aara's Scars
Chapter 2: Cooper's Death Song
Chapter 3: Te Pehi Kupe's Moko
Chapter 4: Melville's Furious Life
Index