# White Lies, Vol. 1

By **John Samson**

- ISBN-13: 9780801477713
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 260
- Published: 15 Oct 2011

## About this book

The narrative of facts—probably best exemplified in the literature of exploration—was an immensely popular genre in mid-nineteenth-century America. In White Lies, John Samson offers full contextual readings of Melville's five major narratives of facts—Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Israel Potter. Samson demons

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