| Description |
x, 730 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, Los Angeles, 1993. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 695-713) and index. |
| Contents |
pt. 1. Melville's rainbow (under-read) : an unclosed case study in conservation enlightenment -- Moderate response to nineteenth-century radicalism : "American literature" and the Progressives -- Fatal line : who was Isabel? What was his problem? -- Melville and the radical Puritans -- Modern artist as Red Specter : "An irruption of heretic thought hard to suppress" -- pt. 2. Tracing their old courses again : the Melville revival, 1919-1953 -- Boulevard of broken dreams : Raymond M. Weaver and the Melville revival, 1919-1935 -- Pluralism in one perfectly happy family, 1926-1953 : a peep at apes and angels -- Change of clowns : film noir phasing out the weaver synthesis -- pt. 3. Melville, Ahab, and the Jewish-American Hitler -- White rot in the Melville industry -- After the revolution : the racial discourse of ethnopluralism. |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation -- History -- 20th century.
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American fiction -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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Criticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Ahab, Captain (Fictitious character)
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United States -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0873386744 (alk. paper) |
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