The New Melville Studies

Herausgeber: Marrs, Cody

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 633g
• ISBN-13: 9781108484039
• ISBN-10: 1108484034
• Artikelnr.: 53211025

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: Melville studies, old and new Cody Marrs
Part I. Feeling With Melville: 2. Paranoid reading, surface pleasures, and deadpan humor in the confidence-man Justine Murison
3. Melville and his flowers Gillian Kidd Osborne
4. Pip and the sounds of blackness in Moby-Dick Christopher Freeburg
5. Melville after secularism Brian Yothers
6. Marginal states: Melville in the Marquesas, 1842 Edward Sugden
Part II. Thinking With Melville: 7. Perfectionist Pierre Dominic Mastroianni
8. The confidence-man between genres Elizabeth Duquette
9. Melville's style Samuel Otter
10. Melville and the conceits of theory Jennifer Greiman
11. Billy Budd: pessimism for post-critique Paul Hurh
12. Melville, Mardi, and materialism Michael Jonik
13. Popular networks in Melville's battle-pieces Eliza Richards
14. The biographical re-turn: writing Melville biography and the example of women John Bryant
15. Afterword: 'new', 'old', and 'with' Robert S. Levine.