Melville's City
Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York
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- Author: Wyn Kelley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date Published: October 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521560542
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Melville's City argues that Melville's relationship to the city was considerably more complex than has generally been believed. By placing him in the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century New York, Kelley presents a Melville who borrowed from the colourful cultural variety of the city while at the same time investigating its darker and more dangerous social aspects. She shows that images both from Melville and from popular sources of the time represented New York variously as Capital, Labyrinth, City of Man and City of God and she goes on the demonstrate that he resisted a generalising or totalising representation of the city by revealing its hybrid identity and giving voice to the poor, the displaced and the racially excluded. Through close examination of works spanning Melville's career, Kelley forges an analysis of connections between urban and literary form.
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- Date Published: October 1996
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521560542
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 236 x 161 x 24 mm
- weight: 0.64kg
- contains: 15 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: Proud City, Proudest Town
Part I. Travelling the Town:
1. Urban space
2. Spectator in the capital
3. Provincial in a labyrinth
Part II. Escaping the City:
4. Town ho
5. Sojourner in the city of man
6. Pilgrim in the city of God
Conclusion. Citified man
Notes
Index.
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