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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / Kevin J. Hayes.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hayes, Kevin J.
- Series:
- Cambridge introductions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Melville, Herman.
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891.
- Authors, American--19th century--Biography--Handbooks, manuals, etc.
- Authors, American.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Handbooks and manuals.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 140 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Herman Melville
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby-Dick is now central to the American literary canon. This introduction sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of Melville's entire oeuvre. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville's life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author. This book covers: Life, Contexts, Works, Reception.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Life 1
- The existential context 12
- The historical context 13
- The urban context 14
- The visual context 16
- The psychological context 19
- The American context 20
- The context of labor 21
- The context of slavery 22
- The world context 23
- The imaginative context 23
- Chapter 3 Writings 25
- The faces of Types 27
- Omoo: the rover as flaneur 33
- Becoming a great writer: Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket 39
- Confronting Moby-Dick 46
- Pierre: the making of a tragic hero 60
- Private letters 67
- Rewriting history: Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" 74
- Modern man: "The Lightning-Rod Man," The Confidence-Man, "Bartleby, the Scrivener" 81
- Battle-Pieces: the voices of war 87
- Clarel, an American epic 92
- The return to prose: Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr 99
- Billy Budd: visions and revisions 105
- Chapter 4 Reception 112.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-134) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0521854806
- 9780521854801
- 0521671043
- 9780521671040
- OCLC:
- 70831052
- Online:
- Publisher description
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