| Description |
xix, 305 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Series |
Cambridge companions to literature
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (p. 287-298) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Robert S. Levine -- "Race" in Typee and White-Jacket / Samuel Otter -- Tambourine in glory : African culture and Melville's art / Sterling Stuckey -- Moby-Dick as revolution / John Bryant -- Pierre's domestic ambiguities / Wyn Kelley -- "A!" : unreadability in The Confidence Man / Elizabeth Renker -- Melville the poet / Lawrence Buell -- Melville's traveling God / Jenny Franchot -- Melville and sexuality / Robert K. Martin -- Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception / Cindy Weinstein . |
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"Bewildering intertanglement" : Melville's engagement with British culture / Paul Giles -- Melville and the avenging dream / Robert Milder. |
| Subject |
Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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| Added Author |
Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-
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| ISBN |
052155571X (pbk.) |
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0521554772 (hardback) |
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