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Title:
The Cambridge companion to Herman Melville
Author:
Levine, Robert S. (Robert Steven), 1953-
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Physical Description:
xix, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction / "Race" in Typee and White-Jacket / Tambourine in glory: African culture and Melville's art / Moby-Dick as revolution / Pierre's domestic ambiguities / "A!̲̲̲̲̲": unreadability in The Confidence Man / Melville the poet / Melville's traveling God / Melville and sexuality / Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception

"Bewildering intertanglement": Melville's engagement with British culture / Melville and the avenging dream
ISBN:
9780521554770

9780521555715
Format :
Book