A Historical Guide to Herman Melville
by
Giles Gunn
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Historical Guides to American Authors
ISBN-10
0195142829
ISBN-13
9780195142822
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint
Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 23rd, 2005
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
374 grams
Dimensions
21.50 x 14.20 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
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This brilliant, original collection of essays on Melville's life and writing makes the case for his centrality both to nineteenth-century writing in America and also to America's understanding of itself. No American literary artist has ever known his fellow citizens in greater depth.
This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville''s relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set of perspectives on Melville''s connections both with his own age and also with our own. This book makes the case, as does no other collection of criticism of its size, for Melville''s commanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing.
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