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A Historical Guide to Herman Melville

Giles Gunn author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:23rd Jun '05

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This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set of perspectives on Melville's connections both with his own age and also with our own. This book makes the case, as does no other collection of criticism of its size, for Melville's commanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing.

This book offers much of value. Highly recommended. * Choice *

ISBN: 9780195142822

Dimensions: 209mm x 142mm x 19mm

Weight: 308g

272 pages