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White-Jacket after the millennium: reading Melville's novel in time of war.

Publication: Melville Society Extracts
Publication Date: 01-JUL-04
Format: Online
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Full Article Title: White-Jacket after the millennium: reading Melville's novel in time of war.(Abstract)(Critical Essay)

Article Excerpt
Herman Melville begins Chapter 68 of White-Jacket with the questions, "Who knows that this humble narrative may not hereafter prove the history of an obsolete barbarism? Who knows that, when men-of-war shall be no more, 'White-Jacket' may not be quoted to show to the people in the Millennium what a man-of-war was? God hasten the time! Lo! ye years, escort it hither, and bless our eyes ere we die." The man-of-war is not only a frigate, an armed ship, but as in Moby-Dick a picture of the world,...

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