A Historical Guide to Herman Melville
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