Melville, mapping and globalization : literary cartography in the American baroque writer / Robert T. Tally Jr.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tally, Robert T.

Series:

Continuum literary studies.

Continuum literary studies series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Setting (Literature).

Space and time in literature.

Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.

Melville, Herman.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (186 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Melville, Mapping and Globalization , Robert Tally argues that Melville does not belong in the tradition of the American Renaissance, but rather creates a baroque literary cartography, artistically engaging with spaces beyond the national model. At a time of intense national consolidation and cultural centralization, Melville discovered the postnational forces of an emerging world system, a system that has become our own in the era of globalization. Drawing on the work of a range of literary and social critics (including Deleuze, Foucault, Jameson, and Moretti), Tally argues that Melville's

Contents:

Preface: "when Leviathan's the text"

Out of bounds: Melville's American baroque

Spaces of American literature: geography and narrative form

'An everlasting terra incognita': globalization and world literature

Anti-Ishmael

Marine nomadology: Melville's antinomy of pure reason

'spaces that before were blank': the utopia of the periphery

A prosy stroll: overview and the urban itinerary

The ambiguities of place: local narrative and the global city

Conclusion: "Leviathan is not the biggest fish", or, the cartography of the Kraken.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-45278-9

1-4411-0330-9

OCLC:

647872985