A Jacket Not Worth Looking At: Shipboard Boredom aboard Herman Melville’s Neversink
This article reads Herman Melville’s White-Jacket as an exploration of shipboard boredom, which oscillates between mechanized labor (tedium) and periods of idleness at sea (ennui). The story, which revolves around a sailor wearing a white jacket among navy-blue uniforms, gives an account of the peri...
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European Association for American Studies
2022-12-01
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| Series: | European Journal of American Studies |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ejas/18993 |
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