Melville’s Bibles

Melville’s Bibles
Author: Ilana Pardes
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2008-02-05
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520254554

"This is a splendid book, showing Ilana Pardes as a scholar-critic at the height of her powers. Distinguished and full of originality, Melville's Bibles brings into play a richly nuanced and minutely informed sense of the multiple roles of the Bible in antebellum American culture. This work is an important new understanding of the nature of Melville's major novel."—Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley "With a command of Biblical scholarship and a keen textual sensitivity, Pardes deftly analyzes the ways in which Melville incorporates Biblical language, genre, plot, character, and debate in Moby-Dick. Few critics have captured Melville's Biblical apprehensions and pretensions as well as Pardes or with her intellectual range and sympathy."—Samuel Otter, Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley

The New Melville Studies

The New Melville Studies
Author: Cody Marrs
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2019-03-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1108484034

This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.