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A companion to Herman Melville
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ISBN: 9781405122313 1405122315 1119045274 1119117909 0470996781 9786610743599 140516431X 1782686932 128074359X 1405171944 Year: 2006 Volume: 41 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Blackwell

The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville
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ISBN: 0521671043 9780521671040 0521854806 9780521854801 9780511611001 9780511275326 0511275323 0511271441 9780511271441 0511270941 9780511270949 0511273061 9780511273063 0511274629 9780511274626 0511611005 1107165873 9781107165878 1280815531 9781280815539 0511568509 9780511568503 0511273851 9780511273858 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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.

The Cambridge companion to Herman Melville
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ISBN: 052155571X 0521554772 1139000373 9780521555715 9780521554770 1139815563 9781139000376 Year: 1999 Volume: *25 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.

A historical guide to Herman Melville
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ISBN: 0195142829 9780195142822 0195142810 9780195142815 0199850291 1423762223 0199729042 1280531258 1602569983 Year: 2005 Volume: *9 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

Empire for liberty: Melville and the poetics of individualism
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ISBN: 0691067589 0691015090 0691234566 Year: 1989 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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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."


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The new Cambridge companion to Herman Melville
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ISBN: 9781107687912 9781107023130 1107687918 9781139149952 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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