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Literature and moral reform : Melville and the discipline of reading / Carol Colatrella.
Van Pelt Library PS2388.E9 C65 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Colatrella, Carol.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Ethics.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Books and reading.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States--History--19th century.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Didactic fiction, American--History and criticism.
- Didactic fiction, American.
- Books and reading in literature.
- Literature and morals.
- Ethics in literature.
- History.
- Books and reading.
- Ethics.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- x, 337 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1. Disciplinary Narratives: Bartleby as Model Prisoner 8
- 2. Interactive Short Fiction 53
- 3. Creative Ethnographies: Reading Culture and Developing Character in Typee, Omoo, and Mardi 87
- 4. Sailing and Surviving: Adopting a Democratic View of Humanity in Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby-Dick 135
- 5. Chance, Poverty, and Morality in Pierre, Israel Potter, and The Confidence-Man 179
- 6. Summary Judgment in Billy Budd 227.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-327) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0813025680
- OCLC:
- 50291124
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