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Correspondent colorings : Melville in the marketplace / Sheila Post-Lauria.
Van Pelt Library PS2388.T4 P67 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Post-Lauria, Sheila, 1955-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Technique.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Authors and readers--United States--History--19th century.
- Authors and readers.
- Popular literature--Technique.
- Popular literature.
- Books and reading.
- Technique.
- United States.
- History.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Books and reading.
- Journalism--United States--History--19th century.
- Journalism.
- Fiction--Technique.
- Fiction.
- Literary form.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 276 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
- Summary:
- This innovative book makes a major contribution to the current revision of the American literary canon. Challenging the view of Melville as an isolated, alienated genius, Sheila Post-Lauria presents him not only as a writer keenly attuned to the popular culture of his day but also as one who considered reliance upon cultural materials fundamental to his creativity. Firmly grounded in the new scholarship on the history of nineteenth-century print culture and in studies of Melville's contemporaries, Correspondent Colorings provides a rereading of Melville's oeuvre that casts new light on masterpieces like Moby dick and ambiguous texts such as Benito Cereno, as well as lesser known magazine and the late poetry.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1558490027
- 1558490035
- OCLC:
- 32924448
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