A Companion to Herman Melville
by Editor: Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
In a series of 35 original essays, this Companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville's works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville. Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville. Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives. Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy. Reveals Melville as a more contemporarywriter than his critics have sometimes assumed.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | |
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Texts and Abbreviations | |
| Preface | |
| Travels. | |
| A Traveling Life | |
| Cosmopolitanism and Traveling Culture | |
| Melville's World Readers | |
| Global Melville | |
| Geographies. | |
| Science and the Earth | |
| Ships, Whaling, and the Sea | |
| Pacific Paradises | |
| Atlantic Trade | |
| Ancient Lands | |
| Nations. | |
| Democracy and its Discontents | |
| Urbanization, Class Struggle, and Reform | |
| Wicked Books: Melville and Religion | |
| Pierre's Bad Associations: Public Life in the Institutional Nation | |
| Melville, Slavery, and the American Dilemma | |
| Gender and Sexuality | |
| Libraries. | |
| The Legacy of Britain | |
| Romantic Philosophy, Transcendentalism, and Nature | |
| Literature of Exploration and the Sea | |
| Death and Literature: Melville and the Epitaph | |
| The Company of Women Authors | |
| Hawthorne and Race | |
| "Unlike Things Must Meet and Mate": Melville and the Visual Arts | |
| Texts. | |
| The Motive for Metaphor: Type, Omoo, and Mardi | |
| Artist at Work: Redburn | |
| The Language of Moby-Dick: "Read It If You Can" | |
| Threading the Labyrinth: Moby-Dick as Hybrid Epic | |
| The Female Subject in Pierre and The Piazza Tales | |
| Narrative Shock in "Bartleby, the Scrivener, " "The Paradise of Bacherlors and the Tartars of Maids," and "Benito Cereno" | |
| Fluid Identity in Israel Potter and The Confidence-Man | |
| How Clarel Works | |
| Melville the Realist Poet | |
| Melville's Transhistorical Voice: Billy Budd, Sailor and the Fragmentation of Forms | |
| Meenings. | |
| The Melville Revival | |
| Creating Icons: Melville in Visual Media and Popular Culture | |
| The Melville Text | |
| Index | |
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