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9780521554770

The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521554770

  • ISBN10:

    0521554772

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1998-05-13
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

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 novels are discussed, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on an American author whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors
ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Chronology of Melville's Life xv
Introduction 1(11)
Robert S. Levine
``Race'' in Typee and White-Jacket
12(25)
Samuel Otter
The Tambourine in Glory: African Culture and Melville's Art
37(28)
Sterling Stuckey
Moby-Dick as Revolution
65(26)
John Bryant
Pierre's Domestic Ambiguities
91(23)
Wyn Kelley
``A ---!'': Unreadability in The Confidence-Man
114(21)
Elizabeth Renker
Melville the Poet
135(22)
Lawrence Buell
Melville's Traveling God
157(29)
Jenny Franchot
Melville and Sexuality
186(16)
Robert K. Martin
Melville, Labor, and the Discourses of Reception
202(22)
Cindy Weinstein
``Bewildering Intertanglement'': Melville's Engagement with British Culture
224(26)
Paul Giles
Melville and the Avenging Dream
250(29)
Robert Milder
Afterword 279(8)
Andrew Delbanco
Selected Bibliography 287(12)
Index 299

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