The New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

Herausgeber: Levine, Robert S.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This New Companion offers fifteen short, lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies, including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies, planetary studies, law and literature, oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9781107023130
• ISBN-10: 1107023130
• Artikelnr.: 39870849

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.