The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

Herausgeber: Levine, Robert S.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 382g
• ISBN-13: 9781107687912
• ISBN-10: 1107687918
• Artikelnr.: 39633245

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors
Acknowledgments
Chronology of Melville's life
Texts and abbreviations
Introduction Robert S. Levine
1. Melville and the nonhuman world Geoffrey Sanborn
2. Melville and oceanic studies Hester Blum
3. Democracy and Melville's aesthetics Jennifer Greiman
4. White-Jacket: telling who is - and ain't - a slave Jeannine Marie DeLombard
5. Reading Moby-Dick Samuel Otter
6. Pierre, life history, and the obscure Wyn Kelley
7. 'Bartleby' and the magazine fiction Graham Thompson
8. Skepticism and The Confidence-Man Maurice S. Lee
9. Melville the poet in the postbellum world Elizabeth Renker
10. Judgment in Billy Budd Gregg Crane
11. Melville and queerness without character Michael Snediker
12. Melville with pictures Elisa Tamarkin
13. Melville's planetary compass Timothy Marr
14. Wound, beast, revision: versions of the Melville meme John Bryant
15. Cold war allegories and the politics of criticism Christopher Castiglia
Selected bibliography
Index.