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9780195142822

A Historical Guide To Herman Melville

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195142822

  • ISBN10:

    0195142829

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-06-02
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

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, anillustrated 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'scommanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing.

Author Biography


Giles Gunn is Professor of English and of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Table of Contents

Introduction 3(14)
Giles Gunn
Herman Melville, 1819-1891: A Brief Biography
17(44)
Robert Milder
MELVILLE IN HIS TIME
Romantic Answers, Victorian Questions: Cultural Possibilities for Melville at Midcentury
61(22)
Leon Chai
Melville and Class
83(22)
Myra Jehlen
Melville and the Marketplace
105(28)
Sheila Post
Without the Pale: Melville and Ethnic Cosmopolitanism
133(34)
Timothy Marr
``Wandering To-and-Fro'': Melville and Religion
167(38)
Emory Elliott
Illustrated Chronology 205(20)
Bibliographical Essay 225(18)
Giles Gunn
Contributors 243(4)
Index 247

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