Brian Yothers

Melville's Mirrors (eBook, ePUB)

Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.



Herman Melville is among the most thoroughly canonized authors in American literature, and the body of criticism dealing with his writing is immense. Until now, however, there has been no standard volume on the history of Melvillecriticism. That a volume on this subject is timely and important is shown by the number of introductions and companions to Melville's work that have been published during the last few years [none of which focuses on the criticalreception of Melville's works], as well as the steady stream of critical monographs and scholarly biographies that have been published on Melville since the 1920s. Melville's Mirrors provides Melville scholars and graduateand undergraduate students with an accessible guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the years. It is a valuable reference for research libraries and for the personal libraries of scholars of Melville and of nineteenth-century American literature in general, and it is also a potential textbook for major author courses on Melville, which are offered at many universities.

BRIAN YOTHERS is Professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso. He is author of The Romance of the Holy Land in American Travel Writing, 1790-1876 and co-editor of Journeys: The International Journal of Travel and Travel Writing.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782047520
• Artikelnr.: 56407272

Autorenporträt

BRIAN YOTHERS is Professor and Chair of English at St. Louis University.

Inhaltsangabe

References to Herman Melville's Works Introduction: Seeking Melville Defining Melville: The Melville Revival andBiographical and Textual Criticism Literary Aesthetics and the Visual Arts Melville's Beard I: Religion
Ethics
and Epistemology Melville's Beard II: Gender
Sexuality
and the Body Aspects of America: Democracy
Nationalism
and War "An Anacharsis Clootz Deputation": Race
Ethnicity
Empire
and Cosmopolitanism Epilogue: Encountering Melville Works Cited Index