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    A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Typee"
    A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Typee"
    A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Typee"
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    A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Typee"

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    A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Typee," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateJun 15, 2016
    ISBN9781535841764
    A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Typee"

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      A Study Guide for Herman Melville's "Typee" - Gale

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      Typee

      Herman Melville

      1846

      Introduction

      Typee, by American novelist and poet Herman Melville, was the first of several adventure tales the author wrote based on his experiences at sea. As such, Typee is part novel, part travelogue, and part autobiography. Throughout the late 1840s and the 1850s the reading public was enthusiastic about these early sea adventures, which included not only Typee (1846), whose subtitle is A Peep at Polynesian Life, but also Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas (loosely a sequel to Typee and published in 1847), Redburn, His First Voyage: Being the Sailor-Boy Confessions and Reminiscences of the Son-of-a-Gentleman, in the Merchant Service (1849), Mardi and a Voyage Thither (1849), and White-Jacket; or, The World in a Man-of-War (1850). White-Jacket is often credited with helping put an end to the practice of flogging sailors on U.S. naval vessels. With the exception of Mardi, these early novels were critically acclaimed, but Melville's later, more thematically rich novels such as Moby Dick (1851), Pierre; or, The Ambiguities (1852), the short story Benito Cereno (1855) as part of the collection The Piazza Tales, and the posthumously published short novel Billy Budd (1924) are generally regarded as representing the fullest development of the author's art.

      Author Biography

      Herman Melville was born on August 1, 1819, in New York City, although his family later moved to Albany, New York. After his father died in debt in 1832, Melville embarked on a series of occupations, including that of bank clerk, farmer, bookkeeper, and schoolteacher. His career as a seaman began in 1839 when he was a crew member on a ship that sailed to England and back. He then took a job on a whaling ship that sailed to the South Seas. There he deserted the ship with another sailor and made land in the Marquesas Islands, part of French Polynesia in the South Pacific. This incident, which took place in 1842, provided the germ of Typee. The trip was the start of an adventurous career at sea, which included time spent in Tahiti and the Hawaiian Islands, as well as a stint in the U.S. Navy.

      Melville returned to the United States in 1844 and the following year began writing a novel based on his adventures. He actually found two publishers for the novel. The British publisher titled the book Narrative of a Four Months' Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands. The American publisher called the book Typee. The novel was well received by the public, although some readers objected to its frank discussion of

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