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      The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader

      Geoffrey Sanborn

      Geoffrey Sanborn offers a reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory.

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      Plagiarama!: William Wells Brown and the Aesthetic of Attractions

      Geoffrey Sanborn

      William Wells Brown (1814-1884) was a vocal abolitionist, a frequent antagonist of Frederick Douglass, and the author of Clotel, the first known novel by an African American. He was also…

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      Plagiarama!: William Wells Brown and the Aesthetic of Attractions

      Geoffrey Sanborn

      Offers a novel reading of the abolitionist writer’s plagiarism, arguing the act was a means of capitalizing on the energies of mass-cultural entertainments popularized by showmen such as P. T…

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      The Sign of the Cannibal: Melville and the Making of a Postcolonial Reader

      Geoffrey Sanborn

      Geoffrey Sanborn offers a reassessment of the work of Herman Melville, a definitive history of the post-Enlightenment discourse on cannibalism, and a provocative contribution to postcolonial theory.

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      The Value of Herman Melville

      Geoffrey Sanborn (Amherst College, Massachusetts)

      In this book, Geoffrey Sanborn explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career, focusing in particular on Moby-Dick, ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’, ‘Benito Cereno’, and Billy Budd, and examines the…

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      The Value of Herman Melville

      Geoffrey Sanborn (Amherst College, Massachusetts)

      In this book, Geoffrey Sanborn explores the writings of Herman Melville across his career, focusing in particular on Moby-Dick, ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’, ‘Benito Cereno’, and Billy Budd, and examines the…

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      Clotel

      William Wells Brown

      Geoffrey Sanborn’s edition of Clotel highlights the complexity of the novel’s composition and its place in 19th-century print and performance culture.

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      Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori

      Geoffrey Sanborn (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Bard College)

      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…

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      Whipscars and Tattoos: The Last of the Mohicans, Moby-Dick, and the Maori

      Geoffrey Sanborn (Associate Professor of English, Associate Professor of English, Bard College)

      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…

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