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Author | : Elizabeth A. Schultz |
Publisher | : Kent State University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780873388597 |
Throughout his life, Melville lived surrounded by women, and he wove women's experiences into most of his literary work, early and late. The 12 essays in this collection extend the interest in Melville and women evident in recent scholarship, biography, art, and drama.
Author | : Jason Frank |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 2014-01-07 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0813143888 |
Herman Melville is widely considered to be one of America's greatest authors, and countless literary theorists and critics have studied his life and work. However, political theorists have tended to avoid Melville, turning rather to such contemporaries as Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau to understand the political thought of the American Renaissance. While Melville was not an activist in the traditional sense and his philosophy is notoriously difficult to categorize, his work is nevertheless deeply political in its own right. As editor Jason Frank notes in his introduction to A Political Companion to Herman Melville, Melville's writing "strikes a note of dissonance in the pre-established harmonies of the American political tradition." This unique volume explores Melville's politics by surveying the full range of his work -- from Typee (1846) to the posthumously published Billy Budd (1924). The contributors give historical context to Melville's writings and place him in conversation with political and theoretical debates, examining his relationship to transcendentalism and contemporary continental philosophy and addressing his work's relevance to topics such as nineteenth-century imperialism, twentieth-century legal theory, the anti-rent wars of the 1840s, and the civil rights movement. From these analyses emerges a new and challenging portrait of Melville as a political thinker of the first order, one that will establish his importance not only for nineteenth-century American political thought but also for political theory more broadly.
Author | : Nancy Fredricks |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780820316826 |
This challenging and timely study demonstrates that the problems Melville faced as a writer - the relationship between politics and aesthetics and the representation of the marginalized without appropriation - are similar to issues faced in the academy today.
Author | : Elizabeth Renker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
And she explores Melville's complex relationship with women, particularly his wife and sisters, on whom he depended to copy and correct his manuscripts. (Renker's evidence that Melville physically and emotionally abused his wife, Elizabeth Shaw Melville, has already generated attention and controversy).
Author | : Jane C. Goodale |
Publisher | : Waveland PressInc |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Kinship |
ISBN | : 9780881337846 |
Goodale's approach of the Tiwi people is significant in that it is from the perspective of the Tiwi woman as she changes through her life course from birth to the rituals performed after her death.
Author | : Brian Yothers |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2019-02-28 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1640140530 |
An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.
Author | : Wyn Kelley |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1119045274 |
In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed
Author | : Ilana Pardes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2008-02-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0520941527 |
Many writers in antebellum America sought to reinvent the Bible, but no one, Ilana Pardes argues, was as insistent as Melville on redefining biblical exegesis while doing so. In Moby-Dick he not only ventured to fashion a grand new inverted Bible in which biblical rebels and outcasts assume center stage, but also aspired to comment on every imaginable mode of biblical interpretation, calling for a radical reconsideration of the politics of biblical reception. In Melville's Bibles, Pardes traces Melville's response to a whole array of nineteenth-century exegetical writings—literary scriptures, biblical scholarship, Holy Land travel narratives, political sermons, and women's bibles. She shows how Melville raised with unparalleled verve the question of what counts as Bible and what counts as interpretation.
Author | : Michael J. Davey |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317797302 |
No book is more central to the study of nineteenth-century American literature than Herman Melville's Moby-Dick; or The Whale. First published it 1851, it still speaks powerfully to readers today. Combining reprinted documents with clear introductions for student readers, this volume examines the contexts of and critical responses to Melville's work. It draws together: *an introduction to the contexts in which Melville was writing and relevant contextual documents, including letters *chronology of key facts and dates *critical history and extracts from early reviews and modern criticism *fully annotated key passages from the novel *a list of biblical allusions *an annotated guide to further reading. Extensive cross-references link contextual information, critical materials and passages from the novel providing a wide-ranging view of the work and ensuring a successful and enjoyable encounter with the world of Moby-Dick.
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.