Herman Melville The Contemporary Reviews

Klappentext This volume reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Zusammenfassung This volume reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of Herman Melville's writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Typee; 2. Omoo; 3. Mardi; and A Voyage Thither; 4. Redburn; 5. White-jacket; 6. Moby-Dick; 7. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities; 8. Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile; 9. The Piazza tales; 10. The confidence-man: his masquerade; 11. Battle-pieces and aspects of the war; 12. Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land; Index.

Product details

• Assisted by: M. Thomas Inge (Editor), Hershel Parker (Editor), Brian Higgins (Editor)
• Authors: Brian Parker Higgins
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 27.10.1995
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Fiction > Poetry, drama
• EAN: 9780521414234
• ISBN: 978-0-521-41423-4
• Pages: 586
• Series: American Critical Archives > 6