White-jacket / Herman Melville
| dc.contributor | Royster, Paul Library of America New York |
| dc.contributor.author | Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 |
| dc.coverage.placeName | New York |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-07-27 |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-08-19T14:51:18Z |
| dc.date.available | 2022-08-19T14:51:18Z |
| dc.date.created | 1849 |
| dc.date.issued | 1993-06-08 |
| dc.identifier | ota:1631 |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/1631 |
| dc.description.abstract | First edition 1849 |
| dc.format.extent | Text data (1 file : ca. 863 KB) |
| dc.format.medium | Digital bitstream |
| dc.language | English |
| dc.language.iso | eng |
| dc.publisher | University of Oxford |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Oxford Text Archive Core Collection |
| dc.rights | Use of this resource is restricted in some manner. Usually this means that it is available for non-commercial use only with prior permission of the depositor and on condition that this header is included in its entirety with any copy distributed. |
| dc.rights.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106/licence-ota |
| dc.rights.label | ACA |
| dc.subject.lcsh | American literature -- 19th century |
| dc.subject.other | Novels |
| dc.title | White-jacket / Herman Melville |
| dc.title.alternative | The world in a man-of-war |
| dc.type | Text |
| has.files | yes |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| branding | Oxford Text Archive |
| files.size | 883210 |
| files.count | 1 |
| otaterms.date.range | 1800-1899 |
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<Text id=MelWhit> <Author>Melville, Herman</Author> <Title>White-Jacket, or, The World in a Man-of-War</Title> <Edition>Redburn, His First Voyage; White-Jacket, or, The World in a Man-of-War; Moby-Dick, or, The Whale. G. Thomas Tanselle, ed. Library of America. New York: Literary Classics of the U.S., Inc., 1983</Edition> <Date>1849-1850</Date> <body> <loc><locdoc>MelWhitPre</locdoc> <p>Conceive him <i>now in a man-of-war; with his letters of mart, well armed, victualed, and appointed, and see how he acquits himself.</i> <p> Fuller's "Good Sea-Captain." <p> Note <p>In the year 1843 I shipped as "ordinary seaman" on board of a United States frigate, then lying in a harbor of the Pacific Ocean. After remaining in this frigate for more than a year, I was discharged from the service upon the vessel's arrival home. My man-of-war experiences and observations are incorporated in the present volume. <p> . . .
