Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 305 pages)
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digital, PDF file(s)
ISBN:
9781139000376
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015)
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"Bewildering intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British culture
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Introduction
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Melville and the avenging dream
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"Race" in Typee and White-Jacket
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Tambourine in glory: African culture and Melville's art
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Moby-Dick as revolution
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Pierre's domestic ambiguities
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"A!̲̲̲̲̲": unreadability in The Confidence Man
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Melville the poet
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Melville's traveling God
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Melville and sexuality
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Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521554770
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521555715
Additional Edition:
Print version ISBN 9780521554770
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521554772
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