Hero, Captain, and Stranger

Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville

By: Robert K., Jr. Martin

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Paperback | 1 September 2010

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"No other writer on Melville has written so candidly and fully and convincingly on the centrality of male bonding and same-sex love in Melville's work. Robert Martin is the only critic to trace the theme with such thoroughness. Moreover, he handles the subject with the subtlety it requires."--James E. Miller, Jr., University of Chicago
"With a daring worthy of Melville's daring, and a power of discrimination worthy of his daring, Martin has broken fertile new ground and put Melville scholarship deeply in his debt."--"Review"

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Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Introduction	p. 3
The Quest for a Golden Island	p. 17
Chums: the Search for a Friend	p. 40
Moby-Dick: """"Our Hearts' Honeymoon""""	p. 67
Losing Hope	p. 95
Coda	p. 125
Notes	p. 127
Index	p. 141
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Hero, Captain, and Stranger

Male Friendship, Social Critique, and Literary Form in the Sea Novels of Herman Melville

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