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A Companion to Herman Melville

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A Companion to Herman Melville

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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 Biography:

Wyn Kelley is Senior Lecturer in the LiteratureFaculty at MIT. The author of Melville s City:Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century NewYork (1996) and A Short Guide to HermanMelville (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), she is alsoAssociate Editor of the Melville Electronic Library.
Release date NZ
August 21st, 2015
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Undergraduate
Contributor
  • Edited by Wyn Kelley
Pages
616
Dimensions
168x239x33
ISBN-13
9781119045274
Product ID
22867600

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