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Herman Melville : a collection of critical essays / edited by Myra Jehlen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New century views ; NCV-8.
- New century views ; NCV-8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Local Subjects:
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 259 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice Hall, [1994]
- Contents:
- False sympathy in Melville's Typee / Mitchell Breitwieser
- Mardi : creating the creative / Richard Brodhead
- White jacket : authors and audience / Wai-chee Dimock
- Melville and cultural persuasion / Donald W. Pease
- Incomparable America / Leo Bersani
- When is a painting most like a whale? : Ishmael, Moby Dick, and the sublime / Bryan Wolf
- Entangled text : Melville's Pierre and the problem of reading / Edgar A. Dryden
- How to read Melville's Pierre / Sacvan Bercovitch
- Flawed grandeur of Melville's Pierre / Brian Higgins and Hershel Parker
- Empire of agoraphobia / Gillian Brown
- Desert and empire : from "Bartleby" to "Benito Cereno" / Philippe Jaworski
- Melville and race / Arnold Rampersad
- "Benito Cereno" and new-world slavery / Eric Sundquist
- Melville's geography of gender / Robyn Wiegman
- Revolutionary fathers and confidence men / Michael Paul Rogin
- Billy Budd : after the homosexual / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
- Melville's fist : the execution of Billy Budd / Barbara Johnson
- Post-scriptum : a whale sights men / Antonio Tabucchi.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-256).
- ISBN:
- 0135735858
- OCLC:
- 28798493
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