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| Author | : Herman Melville |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 1847 |
| Genre | : Indigenous peoples |
| ISBN | : |
Herman Melville's first book, partly based on his actual experiences as a captive on Nuku Hiva (which Melville spelled as Nukuheva) in the South Pacific Marquesas Islands.
| Author | : Herman Melville |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1847 |
| Genre | : Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia) |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Herman Melville |
| Publisher | : Courier Dover Publications |
| Total Pages | : 305 |
| Release | : 2019-09-18 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 048684398X |
Classic of travel and adventure literature in which the author drew upon his experiences in the South Seas to tell of a stranded sailor's attempts to escape an idyllic but stultifying world.
| Author | : Herman Melville |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 346 |
| Release | : 1847 |
| Genre | : Marquesas Islands |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Sacvan Bercovitch |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 930 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780521301060 |
This is the fullest and richest account of the American Renaissance available in any literary history. The narratives in this volume made for a four-fold perspective on literature: social, cultural, intellectual and aesthetic. Michael D. Bell describes the social conditions of the literary vocation that shaped the growth of a professional literature in the United States. Eric Sundquist draws upon broad cultural patterns: his account of the writings of exploration, slavery, and the frontier is an interweaving of disparate voices, outlooks and traditions. Barbara L. Packer's sources come largely from intellectual history: the theological and philosophical controversies that prepared the way for transcendentalism. Jonathan Arac's categories are formalist: he sees the development of antebellum fiction as a dialectic of prose genres, the emergence of a literary mode out of the clash of national, local and personal forms. Together, these four narratives constitute a basic reassessment of American prose-writing between 1820 and 1865. It is an achievement that will remain authoritative for our time and that will set new directions for coming decades in American literary scholarship.
| Author | : Natasha Hurley |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 412 |
| Release | : 2018-06-19 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1452957002 |
A new history of the queer novel shows its role in constructing gay and lesbian lives The gay and lesbian novel has long been a distinct literary genre with its own awards, shelving categories, bookstore spaces, and book reviews. But very little has been said about the remarkable history of its emergence in American literature, particularly the ways in which the novel about homosexuality did not just reflect but actively produced queer life. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin’s insight that the history of society is connected to the history of language, author Natasha Hurley charts the messy, complex movement by which the queer novel produced the very frames that made it legible as a distinct literature and central to the imagination of queer worlds. Her vision of the queer novel's development revolves around the bold argument that literary circulation is the key ingredient that has made the gay and lesbian novel and its queer forebears available to its audiences. Challenging the narrative that the gay and lesbian novel came into view in response to the emergence of homosexuality as a concept, Hurley posits a much longer history of this novelistic genre. In so doing, she revises our understanding of the history of sexuality, as well as of the processes of producing new concepts and the evolution of new categories of language.
| Author | : Herman Melville |
| Publisher | : Library of America |
| Total Pages | : 1358 |
| Release | : 1982-05-06 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780940450004 |
This first volume of The Library of America's three-volume edition of the complete prose works of Herman Melville includes three romances of the South Seas. Typee and Omoo, based on the young Melville's experiences on a whaling ship, are exuberant accounts of the idyllic life among the "cannibals" in Polynesia. They remained his most popular works well into the 20th century. Mardi ("the world" in Polynesian) is a mixture of love story, adventure, and political allegory, set on a mythical Pacific island, that looks forward to the complexities of Moby-Dick. Together, these three romances give early evidence of the genius and daring that make Melville the master novelist of the sea and a precursor of modernist literature. Two companion volumes--Herman Melville: Redburn, White-Jacket, Moby-Dick and Herman Melville: Pierre, Israel Potter, The Piazza Tales, The Confidence Man, Uncollected Prose, and Billy Budd complete this edition of Melville's prose. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
| Author | : Jean Ingram Brookes |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 464 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Auckland Public Library |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 766 |
| Release | : 1888 |
| Genre | : New Zealand |
| ISBN | : |
