The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville /

"Despite its indifferent reception when it was first published in 1851, Moby-Dick is now a central work in the American literary canon. This introduction offers readings of Melville's masterpiece, but it also sets out the key themes, contexts, and critical reception of his entire oeuvre. K...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hayes, Kevin J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Colección:Cambridge introductions to literature.
Temas:
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Guides, manuels, etc.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891.
Melville, Herman > 1819-1891
Melville, Herman.
Melville, Herman, > 1819-1891 > Introduction.
Melville, Herman, > (1819-1891) > Critique et interprétation.
1800-1899
Authors, American > 19th century > Biography > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Écrivains américains > 19e siècle > Biographies > Guides, manuels, etc.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Authors, American.
Handbook
Handbooks and manuals.
Guides et manuels.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Life
  • 2. Contexts
  • The existential context
  • The historical context
  • The urban context
  • The visual context
  • The psychological context
  • The American context
  • The context of labor
  • The context of slavery
  • The world context
  • The imaginative context
  • 3. Writings
  • The faces of Typee
  • Omoo : the rover as flaneur
  • Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket
  • Confronting Moby-Dick
  • Pierre : the making of a tragic hero
  • Private letters
  • Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno"
  • Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener"
  • Battle-pieces : the voices of war
  • Clarel, and American epic
  • The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr
  • Billy Budd : visions and revisions
  • 4. Reception.

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