A Historical Guide To Herman Melville

Zusatztext This book offers much of value. Highly recommended. Informationen zum Autor Giles Gunn is Professor of English and of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Klappentext This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set of perspectives on Melville's connections both with his own age and also with our own. This book makes the case, as does no other collection of criticism of its size, for Melville's commanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing. Zusammenfassung This brilliant, original collection of essays on Melville's life and writing makes the case for his centrality both to nineteenth-century writing in America and also to America's understanding of itself. No American literary artist has ever known his fellow citizens in greater depth.

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• Authors: Giles Gunn, Giles (Professor of English and of Global and International Studies Gunn, Giles B Gunn, Giles B. Gunn, Giles B. (EDT) Gunn
• Assisted by: Giles Gunn (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.06.2005
• EAN: 9780195142822
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514282-2
• No. of pages: 262
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Historical Guides to American Authors; Historical Guides to American; Historical Guides to American Authors; Historical Guides to American
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies