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A Companion to Herman Melville


A Companion to Herman Melville


Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 1. Aufl.

von: Wyn Kelley

38,99 €

Verlag: Wiley-Blackwell
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 15.04.2008
ISBN/EAN: 9781405171946
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 624

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In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century.<br /><br /> <ul> <li>Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville</li> <li>Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville</li> <li>Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives</li> <li>Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy</li> <li>Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed</li> </ul>
<p>List of Illustrations xi</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xii</p> <p>Acknowledgments xx</p> <p>Texts and Abbreviations xxi</p> <p>Preface xxiii<br /><i>Wyn Kelley</i></p> <p><b>Part I Travels 1</b></p> <p>1 A Traveling Life<br /> <i>Laurie Robertson-Lorant 3</i></p> <p>2 Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture<br /> <i>Peter Gibian 19</i></p> <p>3 Melville’s World Readers<br /> <i>A. Robert Lee 35</i></p> <p>4 Global Melville<br /> <i>Paul Lyons 52</i></p> <p><b>Part II Geographies 69</b></p> <p>5 Science and the Earth<br /> <i>Bruce A. Harvey 71</i></p> <p>6 Ships, Whaling, and the Sea<br /> <i>Mary K. Bercaw Edwards 83</i></p> <p>7 Pacific Paradises<br /> <i>Alex Calder 98</i></p> <p>8 Atlantic Trade<br /> <i>Hester Blum 113</i></p> <p>9 Ancient Lands<br /> <i>Basem L. Ra’ad 129</i></p> <p><b>Part III Nations 147</b></p> <p>10 Democracy and its Discontents<br /> <i>Dennis Berthold 149</i></p> <p>11 Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform<br /> <i>Carol Colatrella 165</i></p> <p>12 Wicked Books: Melville and Religion<br /> <i>Hilton Obenzinger 181</i></p> <p>13 Pierre’s Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation<br /> <i>Christopher Castiglia 197</i></p> <p>14 Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma<br /> <i>John Stauffer 214</i></p> <p>15 Gender and Sexuality<br /> <i>Leland S. Person 231</i></p> <p><b>Part IV Libraries 247</b></p> <p>16 The Legacy of Britain<br /> <i>Robin Grey 249</i></p> <p>17 Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature<br /> <i>Rachela Permenter 266</i></p> <p>18 Literature of Exploration and the Sea<br /> <i>R. D. Madison 282</i></p> <p>19 Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph<br /> <i>Edgar A. Dryden 299</i></p> <p>20 The Company of Women Authors<br /> <i>Charlene Avallone 313</i></p> <p>21 Hawthorne and Race<br /> <i>Ellen Weinauer 327</i></p> <p>22 “Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate”:<br /> Melville and the Visual Arts<br /> <i>Robert K. Wallace 342</i></p> <p><b>Part V Texts 363</b></p> <p>23 The Motive for Metaphor:<br /> <i>Typee, Omoo, and Mardi Geoffrey Sanborn 365</i></p> <p>24 Artist at Work:<br /> <i>Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick, and Pierre Cindy Weinstein 378</i></p> <p>25 The Language of Moby-Dick:<br /> “Read It If You Can”<br /> <i>Maurice S. Lee 393</i></p> <p>26 Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic<br /> <i>Christopher Sten 408</i></p> <p>27 The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales <br /> <i>Caroline Levander 423</i></p> <p>28 Narrative Shock in “Bartleby, the Scrivener,”<br /> “The Paradise of Bachelors and the Tartarus of Maids,” and “Benito Cereno”<br /> <i>Marvin Fisher 435</i></p> <p>29 Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man <br /> <i>Gale Temple 451</i></p> <p>30 How Clarel Works<br /> <i>Samuel Otter 467</i></p> <p>31 Melville the Realist Poet<br /> <i>Elizabeth Renker 482</i></p> <p>32 Melville’s Transhistorical Voice:<br /> <i>Billy Budd, Sailor </i>and the Fragmentation of Forms<i><br /> John Wenke 497</i></p> <p><b>Part VI Meanings 513</b></p> <p>33 The Melville Revival<br /> <i>Sanford E. Marovitz 515</i></p> <p>34 Creating Icons:<br /> Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture<br /> <i>Elizabeth Schultz 532</i></p> <p>35 The Melville Text<br /> <i>John Bryant 553</i></p> <p>Index 567</p>
“As a guide to various perspectives on American literary studies at the start of the second decade of the twenty-first century, it has its value.”—(<i>Reference Reviews</i>, 1 December 2012)
<p><b>Wyn Kelley</b> is Senior Lecturer in the Literature Faculty at MIT. The author of <i>Melville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York</i> (1996) and <i>A Short Guide to Herman Melville</i> (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), she is also Associate Editor of the <i>Melville Electronic Library.</i></p>
<i>A Companion to Herman Melville</i> 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. <p>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.</p>
<p>"This book does not focus on one particular Melville book, short story, or poem but instead offers a new examination of the latest in Melville criticism...These fine essays advance Melville scholarship for the 21st century."—<i>Choice</i></p> <p>“A beautifully produced substantial volume.”—<i>Reference Reviews</i></p>

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