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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.

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Droit dans la littérature --- Law in literature --- Recht in de literatuur --- Law --- Droit --- History --- Histoire --- Melville, Herman, --- Knowledge --- Connaissances --- -Law in literature --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Melville, Herman --- -Knowledge --- -Law --- Droit dans la littérature --- Law. --- History and criticism --- 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, --- United States --- 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.

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African Americans in literature. --- Ellison, Ralph. --- Melville, Herman, --- Influence. --- African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Negroes in literature --- 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, --- Melville, Herman --- Melvill, German --- Melville, Hermann --- Meville, Herman --- Melvil, Cherman --- Mai-erh-wei-erh, Ho-erh-man --- Melṿil, Herman --- Tarnmoor, Salvator R. --- Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Artistic impact --- Artistic influence --- Impact (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- Literary impact --- Literary influence --- Literary tradition --- Tradition (Literature) --- Art --- Influence (Psychology) --- Literature --- Intermediality --- Intertextuality --- Originality in literature

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Wai-chee Dimock approaches Herman Melville not as a timeless genius, but as a historical figure caught in the politics of an imperial nation and an "imperial self." She challenges our customary view by demonstrating a link between the individualism that enabled Melville to write as a sovereign author and the nationalism that allowed America to grow into what Jefferson hoped would be an "empire for liberty."

Individualism in literature --- Individualism in literature. --- American literature --- Thematology --- Melville, Herman --- Melville, Herman, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Criticism and interpretation --- personnification. --- individualisme --- personnification --- Melville, Herman. --- English fiction. --- English literature --- 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,

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This play, which contains biographical information relating to Herman Melville, is fundamentally an exploration of the ways in which these two things take place. The play admits the truth of Walter Benjamin's view of history as ''time filled by the presence of the now''. Parallels between past and present (e.g., racism, domestic abuse, and the plight of the visionary American artist) are clearly implied, but the play also utilizes new technologies, in particular video, in order to represent the kind of dialectical history and representation promoted by Benjamin. During Melville's lifetime, and

Romanciers. --- Novelists --- Melville, Herman, --- American drama. --- American literature --- 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,