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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville /

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0521671043 (pbk.)

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0521854806 (hardback)

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9780521671040 (pbk.)

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9780521854801 (hardback)

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The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville /

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[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kevin J. Hayes.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2007.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 140 p. ;

Dimensions

24 cm.

Series Title

Cambridge introductions to literature

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 124-134) and index.

Text of Note

Life -- Contexts -- The existential context -- The historical context -- The urban context -- The visual context -- The psychological context -- The American context -- The context of labor -- The context of slavery -- The world context -- The imaginative context -- Writings -- The faces of Typee -- Omoo : the rover as flaneur -- Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket -- Confronting Moby-Dick -- Pierre : the making of a tragic hero -- Private letters -- Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno" -- Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener" -- Battle-pieces : the voices of war -- Clarel, and American epic -- The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr -- Billy Budd : visions and revisions -- Reception.

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Text of Note

Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. The first chapters cover Melville's life and the historical and cultural contexts. Melville's individual works each receive full attention in the third chapter, including Typee, Moby Dick, Billy Budd and the short stories. Elsewhere in the chapter different themes in Melville are explained with reference to several works: Melville's writing process, Melville as letter writer, Melville and the past, Melville and modernity, Melville's late writings. The final chapter analyses Melville scholarship from his day to ours. Kevin J. Hayes provides comprehensive information about Melville's life and works in an accessible and engaging book that will be essential for students beginning to read this important author.

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Herman Melville

Melville, Herman,1819-1891

Authors, American-- 19th century, Biography, Handbooks, manuals, etc.

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Edition

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Hayes, Kevin J.

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20111014015128.0

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