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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.

English literature --- Melville, Herman --- Melville, Herman, --- Authors, American --- American authors --- Melvill, German, --- Melville, Hermann, --- Meville, Herman, --- Melvil, Cherman, --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man, --- Melṿil, Herman, --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R., --- מלוויל, הרמן --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן --- ميلڤيل، هرمن --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- Melvill, Herman, --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Authors, American - 19th century - Biography - Handbooks, manuals, etc --- Melville, Herman, - 1819-1891 - Handbooks, manuals, etc --- Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 --- Melville, Herman, - 1819-1891

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Authors, American --- Sea stories, American --- History and criticism --- Melville, Herman, --- Melville, Herman --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- מלוויל, הרמן, --- מלויל, הרמן, --- ميلڤيل، هرمن، --- 麥爾維爾, --- Virginian spending July in Vermont, --- Melvill, Herman, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Travel --- Oceania --- Moana Nui, Te --- Moana Oceania --- Oceanica --- South Pacific --- South Pacific Ocean Region --- South Pacific Region --- South Sea Islands --- South Seas --- Southwest Pacific Region --- Te Moana Nui --- Islands of the Pacific --- Description and travel. --- In literature. --- Description and travel --- Conferences - Meetings

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'Novel Orientations: Maps, Novels and the Spatial Imagination, 1850-2000 'examines how readers and novelists alike have used maps, guidebooks, and other geographical media to imagine and represent the space of the novel from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Thematology --- Melville, Herman --- Pynchon, Thomas --- Joyce, James --- American fiction --- Geography in literature. --- Maps in literature. --- Modernism (Literature) --- Realism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Melville, Herman, --- Joyce, James, --- Pynchon, Thomas. --- 82.091 --- 82.04 --- 820 "18/19" --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Literaire thema's --- Engelse literatuur--Hedendaagse Tijd --- 820 "18/19" Engelse literatuur--Hedendaagse Tijd --- 82.04 Literaire thema's --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Modernism (Literature). --- Geography in literature --- Maps in literature --- Realism in literature --- Neorealism (Literature) --- Magic realism (Literature) --- Mimesis in literature --- Crepuscolarismo --- Literary movements --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Topography in literature --- History and criticism --- Homer. --- Birmingham, Kevin.