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The Cambridge companion to Herman Melville / edited by Robert S. Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891--Criticism and interpretation.
- Melville, Herman.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 305 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Robert S. Levine
- "Race" in Typee and White-Jacket / Samuel Otter
- Tambourine in glory: African culture and Melville's art / Sterling Stuckey
- Moby-Dick as revolution / John Bryant
- Pierre's domestic ambiguities / Wyn Kelley
- "A!̲̲̲̲̲": unreadability in The Confidence Man / Elizabeth Renker
- Melville the poet / Lawrence Buell
- Melville's traveling God / Jenny Franchot
- Melville and sexuality / Robert K. Martin
- Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception / Cindy Weinstein.
- "Bewildering intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British culture / Paul Giles
- Melville and the avenging dream / Robert Milder.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
- ISBN:
- 1-139-81556-3
- 1-139-00037-3
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