UID:
almahu_9947414192402882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 140 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511611001 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge introductions to literature
Content:
Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical and cultural contexts. Melville's individual works each receive full attention in the third chapter, including Typee, Moby Dick, Billy Budd and the short stories. Elsewhere in the chapter different themes in Melville are explained with reference to several works: Melville's writing process, Melville as letter writer, Melville and the past, Melville and modernity, Melville's late writings. The final chapter analyses Melville scholarship from his day to ours. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville's life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author.
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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1. Life -- 2. Contexts -- The existential context -- The historical context -- The urban context -- The visual context -- The psychological context -- The American context -- The context of labor -- The context of slavery -- The world context -- The imaginative context -- 3. Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- 4. Reception.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521854801
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511611001
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