u Notes I . The Melville Revival is usually dated from the publication of Raymond Weaver’s Herman Melville: Mariner and Mystic (New York: George H. Doran, ). In November of the same year, H. M. Tomlinson published“A Clue to‘Moby Dick,’”about Melville’s use of Sir Thomas Browne (Literary Review, New York Evening Post [Nov. , ], –). Fifteen months later,Whitney Hastings Wells published a note on“Moby Dick and Rabelais” in Modern Language Notes (Feb. ), . . Roger P. McCutcheon, “The Technique of Melville’s Israel Potter,” South Atlantic Quarterly (Apr. ),–, and Harold H.Scudder,“Melville’s Benito Cereno and Captain Delano’s Voyages,” Publications of the Modern Language Association (June ), –. . According to Nathaniel Philbrick, the Wampanoag word townor means that a whale has been sighted for a second time. See In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex (New York: Viking, ), . . Richard D. Altick, The Scholar Adventurers (New York: Macmillan, ). . More information on the Barouallie whalemen can be found in Roger D. Abrahams , Deep the Water, Shallow the Shore: Three Essays on Shantying in the West Indies (first published as number of American Folklore Society Monographs,Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, ; Mystic, CT: Mystic Seaport Museum, ). . Tusitala is a Samoan word that can be translated as“storyteller” or“teller of tales.” As a Polynesian language, Samoan is closely allied with Tahitian and Marquesan. . William Shakespeare, The Tempest, ed. Louis B. Wright and Virginia A. LaMar (New York: Washington Square Press, ), ... . Charles Roberts Anderson, Melville in the South Seas (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, ), . 06 Edwards notes 10/31/08 11:28 AM Page 202 . Ida Leeson, “The Mutiny on the Lucy Ann,” Philological Quarterly (Oct. ): –. . Robert S. Forsythe, review of Melville in the South Seas by Charles Roberts Anderson , American Literature (Mar. ), –. The earlier pieces referred to are “Herman Melville in Honolulu,” New England Quarterly (Mar. ): –;“Herman Melville in the Marquesas,” Philological Quarterly (Jan. ): –; “Herman Melville in Tahiti,” Philological Quarterly (Oct. ): –; “More upon Herman Melville in Tahiti,” Philological Quarterly (Jan. ): –. . Heflin’s work first appeared in his dissertation and then in his posthumously published book. Wilson Heflin,“Herman Melville’s Whaling Years”(PhD diss.,Vanderbilt University, ); Herman Melville’s Whaling Years, ed. Mary K. Bercaw Edwards and Thomas Farel Heffernan (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt Univ. Press, ). . Harrison Hayford, editors’ introduction and explanatory notes to Omoo, by Herman Melville, ed. Harrison Hayford and Walter Blair (New York: Hendricks House, ), xvii–lii, –; Harrison Hayford, note on the text and afterword to Typee, by Herman Melville, ed. Harrison Hayford (New York: Signet, ), –; Herman Melville , Typee, ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle, with historical note by Leon Howard (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern Univ. Press and the Newberry Library, ); Herman Melville, Omoo, ed. Harrison Hayford, Hershel Parker, and G. Thomas Tanselle (Evanston and Chicago: Northwestern Univ. Press and the Newberry Library, ). . Greg Dening, Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a Silent Land: Marquesas – (Honolulu: Univ. Press of Hawaii, ). . Greg Dening, Beach Crossings: Voyaging across Times, Cultures, and Self (Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, ). . Robert C. Suggs, The Hidden Worlds of Polynesia: The Chronicle of an Archaeological Expedition to Nuku Hiva in the Marquesas Islands (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, ). . Robert C. Suggs,“Melville’s Flight to Taipi: Topographic,Archeological, and Historic Considerations,” ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance .– (), –; John Bryant,“Taipi, Tipii, Typee: Place, Memory, and Text,”ESQ: A Journal of the American Renaissance .– (): –. . T. Walter Herbert Jr., Marquesan Encounters: Melville and the Meaning of Civilization (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, ), . . The missionary documents that Herbert studied are Mary Charlotte Alexander, William Patterson Alexander in Kentucky, the Marquesas, Hawaii (Honolulu, ); William Patterson Alexander to Rufus Anderson, journal letter, Sept. , , to May , , in the Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; Robert Armstrong,“Journal Written at the Island of Nuuhiva,” entries from Aug. , , to Mar. , , in the Houghton Library; and Benjamin Wyman Parker, “Joint Communication of Messrs. Alexander, Armstrong & Parker,”Apr. , , in the Houghton Library. . Herbert cites the first edition of David Porter’s Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (Philadelphia, ), although most Melville scholars cite the second edition , published in . See my discussion of the two editions of Porter in note of chapter . . Caleb Crain,“Lovers of Human Flesh: Homosexuality and Cannibalism in Melville ’s Novels,”American Literature (Mar. ), . . Ibid., . xvii‒xix u 06 Edwards notes 10/31/08 11:28 AM Page 203 [34.201.37.128] Project MUSE (2024-03-28 10:20 GMT) . William Arens, The Man-Eating Myth: Anthropology and Anthropophagy (New York: Oxford Univ...