A Companion to Herman Melville
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A Companion to Herman Melville is the ideal resource for twenty-first century readers of Melville. In 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, it demonstrates the relevance of Melville to life today, not only as an American or Western writer, but also as an author who bridges racial, cultural, national and geographic divides to imagine a universe that is as rich and capacious as his worldwide readership. This is the first companion to consider Melville in a global context, and to look at the impact of global economies and technologies on the ways people read his works. In…mehr

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A Companion to Herman Melville is the ideal resource for twenty-first century readers of Melville. In 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, it demonstrates the relevance of Melville to life today, not only as an American or Western writer, but also as an author who bridges racial, cultural, national and geographic divides to imagine a universe that is as rich and capacious as his worldwide readership. This is the first companion to consider Melville in a global context, and to look at the impact of global economies and technologies on the ways people read his works. In addition, it locates Melville in his cultural milieu - revising previous romantic views of his politics on race, gender, and democracy. Seen in this light, Melville is also revealed as a more contemporary writer than his readers have sometimes assumed.
Autorenporträt
Wyn Kelley is Senior Lecturer in the Literature Faculty at MIT. The author of Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996) and A Short Guide to Herman Melville (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), she is also Associate Editor of the Melville Electronic Library.
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"As a guide to various perspectives on American literarystudies at the start of the second decade of the twenty-firstcentury, it has its value."--(Reference Reviews,1 December 2012)

"This book does not focus on one particular Melville book, shortstory, or poem but instead offers a new examination of the latestin Melville criticism...These fine essays advance Melvillescholarship for the 21st century."--Choice

"A beautifully produced substantialvolume."--Reference Reviews