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Informationen zum Autor Robert S. Levine is Professor of English and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher at the University of Maryland! College Park. He is the author of Dislocating Race and Nation (2008) and the editor of a number of volumes! including The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (1998). He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Guggenheim Foundation. Klappentext This new collection offers timely, critical essays specially commissioned to provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. Zusammenfassung This New Companion offers fifteen short! lively essays on a range of topics in Melville studies! including a number of new topics in American literary studies - animal studies! planetary studies! law and literature! oceanic studies - and reconsiderations of classic topics such as form and aesthetics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; Chronology of Melville's life; Texts and abbreviations; Introduction Robert S. Levine; 1. Melville and the nonhuman world Geoffrey Sanborn; 2. Melville and oceanic studies Hester Blum; 3. Democracy and Melville's aesthetics Jennifer Greiman; 4. White-Jacket: telling who is - and ain't - a slave Jeannine Marie DeLombard; 5. Reading Moby-Dick Samuel Otter; 6. Pierre, life history, and the obscure Wyn Kelley; 7. 'Bartleby' and the magazine fiction Graham Thompson; 8. Skepticism and The Confidence-Man Maurice S. Lee; 9. Melville the poet in the postbellum world Elizabeth Renker; 10. Judgment in Billy Budd Gregg Crane; 11. Melville and queerness without character Michael Snediker; 12. Melville with pictures Elisa Tamarkin; 13. Melville's planetary compass Timothy Marr; 14. Wound, beast, revision: versions of the Melville meme John Bryant; 15. Cold war allegories and the politics of criticism Christopher Castiglia; Selected bibliography; Index.
