The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville
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- Editor: Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland, College Park
- Date Published: October 2012
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- isbn: 9781139796828
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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 novels are discussed, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on an American author whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.
Read more- All essays newly commissioned for this volume
- Comprehensive coverage of his career as novelist, short-story writer, and poet
- Provides thorough, up-to-date bibliography
- Applies a range of modern theories to one of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century
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- Date Published: October 2012
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781139796828
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Chronology
1. Introduction Robert S. Levine
2. 'Race' in Typee and White-Jacket Samuel Otter
3. The tambourine in glory: African culture and Melville's art Sterling Stuckey
4. Moby-Dick as revolution John Bryant
5. Pierre's Domestic Ambiguities Wyn Kelley
6. 'A- !': unreadability in The Confidence Man Elizabeth Renker
7. Melville the poet Lawrence Buell
8. Melville's travelling God Jenny Franchot
9. Melville and sexuality Robert K. Martin
10. Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception Cindy Weinstein
11. 'Bewildering Intertanglement': Melville's engagement with British culture Paul Giles
12. Afterword Andrew Delbanco.
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