Long before penning Moby-Dick, which many regard as the quintessential American novel, author Herman Melville was captivated by life on the open sea. White Jacket adopts a different perspective, focusing on the brutal treatment that many sailors...
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Long before penning Moby-Dick, which many regard as the quintessential American novel, author Herman Melville was captivated by life on the open sea. White Jacket adopts a different perspective, focusing on the brutal treatment that many sailors received at the hands of their superiors. In particular, it has been noted that this novel proved to be instrumental in banning the practice of flogging in several branches of the U.S. military
Title; Contents; Chapter I - The Jacket; Chapter II - Homeward Bound; Chapter III - A Glance at the Principal Divisions, into Which a Man-Of-War's Crew is Divided; Chapter IV - Jack Chase; Chapter V - Jack Chase on a Spanish Quarter-Deck; Chapter VI - The Quarter-Deck Officers, Warrant Officers, and Berth-Deck Underlings of a Man-Of-War; Where They Live in the Ship; How They Live; Their Social Standing on Ship-Board; And What Sort of Gentlemen They Are; Chapter VII - Breakfast, Dinner, and Supper; Chapter VIII - Selvagee Contrasted with Mad-Jack
Chapter IX - Of the Pockets that Were in the JacketChapter X - From Pockets to Pickpockets; Chapter XI - The Pursuit of Poetry Under Difficulties; Chapter XII - The Good or Bad Temper of Men-Of-War's Men, in a Great Degree, Attributable to Their Particular Stations and Duties Aboard Ship; Chapter XIII - A Man-Of-War Hermit in a Mob; Chapter XIV - A Draught in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XV - A Salt-Junk Club in a Man-Of-War, with a Notice to Quit; Chapter XVI - General Training in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XVII - Away! Second, Third, and Fourth Cutters, Away!; Chapter XVIII - A Man-Of-War Full as a Nut
Chapter XIX - The Jacket AloftChapter XX - How They Sleep in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XXI - One Reason Why Men-Of-War's Men Are, Generally, Short-Lived; Chapter XXII - Wash-Day and House-Cleaning in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XXIII - Theatricals in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XXIV - Introductory to Cape Horn; Chapter XXV - The Dog-Days Off Cape Horn; Chapter XXVI - The Pitch of the Cape; Chapter XXVII - Some Thoughts Growing Out of Mad Jack's Countermanding His Superior's Order; Chapter XXVIII - Edging Away; Chapter XXIX - The Night-Watches
Chapter XXX - A Peep through a Port-Hole at the Subterranean Parts of a Man-Of-WarChapter XXXI - The Gunner Under Hatches; Chapter XXXII - A Dish of Dunderfunk; Chapter XXXIII - A Flogging; Chapter XXXIV - Some of the Evil Effects of Flogging; Chapter XXXV - Flogging Not Lawful; Chapter XXXVI - Flogging Not Necessary; Chapter XXXVII - Some Superior Old "London Dock" from the Wine-Coolers of Neptune; Chapter XXXVIII - The Chaplain and Chapel in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XXXIX - The Frigate in Harbour-The Boats-Grand State Reception of the Commodore
Chapter XL - Some of the Ceremonies in a Man-Of-War Unnecessary and InjuriousChapter XLI - A Man-Of-War Library; Chapter XLII - Killing Time in a Man-Of-War in Harbour; Chapter XLIII - Smuggling in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XLIV - A Knave in Office in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XLV - Publishing Poetry in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XLVI - The Commodore on the Poop, and One of "the People" Under the Hands of the Surgeon; Chapter XLVII - An Auction in a Man-Of-War; Chapter XLVIII - Purser, Purser's Steward, and Postmaster in a Man-Of-War
Chapter XLIX - Rumours of a War, and How They Were Received by the Population of the Neversink
