Herman Melville : reassessments / edited by A. Robert Lee
1984, First Edition. London Totowa, NJ : Vision Press ; Barnes & Noble Books. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #388864
ISBN: 0854783652
Physical description: 221 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: "New world all over": Melville's Typee and Omoo / Herbie Butterfield -- Mardi: a sum of inconsistencies / Harold Beaver -- Redburn and White-Jacket: society and sexuality in the narrators of 1849 / James H. Justus -- Moby-Dick as anatomy / A. Robert Lee -- "Grown in America": Moby-Dick and Melville's sense of control / Eric Mottram -- "All's o'er, and ye know him not": a reading of Pierre / Richard Gray -- Melville the mannerist: form in the short fiction / william Wasserstrom -- Voices off, on and without: ventriloquy in The confidence-man / A. Robert Lee -- Melville's poetry / Andrew Hook -- From empire to empire: Billy Budd, Sailor / H. Bruce Franklin. Subjects: Melville, Herman 1819-1891 Criticism and interpretation.
Melville, Herman 1819-1891. Melville, Herman 1819-1891 Criticism and interpretation Addresses, essays, lectures. 1800-1899. Authors, American 19th century Criticism and interpretation. Écrivains américains 19e siècle Critique et interprétation.
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