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Herman Melville : Modernity and the Material Text /

A provocative reassessment of how Melville's key works engaged with transformative aspects of book manufacture and distribution in the nineteenth century.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGettigan, Katie (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham, New Hampshire : University of New Hampshire Press, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Impressions of authenticity in Typee and Omoo
  • Bookbindings and identity in Redburn and White-jacket
  • Metaphors, markets, and Moby-Dick's "'sthetics in all things"
  • Pierre and the ambiguities of paper
  • Reproducibility, originality, and modernity in The confidence-man
  • Clarel's poetry and pilgrimage of print
  • Conclusion.