New Melville Studies - Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions

This collection reimagines Melville as both a theorist and a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Melville studies, old and new Cody Marrs; Part I. Feeling With Melville: 2. Paranoid reading, surface pleasures, and deadpan humor in the confidence-man Justine Murison; 3. Melville and his flowers Gillian Kidd Osborne; 4. Pip and the sounds of blackness in Moby-Dick Christopher Freeburg; 5. Melville after secularism Brian Yothers; 6. Marginal states: Melville in the Marquesas, 1842 Edward Sugden; Part II. Thinking With Melville: 7. Perfectionist Pierre Dominic Mastroianni; 8. The confidence-man between genres Elizabeth Duquette; 9. Melville's style Samuel Otter; 10. Melville and the conceits of theory Jennifer Greiman; 11. Billy Budd: pessimism for post-critique Paul Hurh; 12. Melville, Mardi, and materialism Michael Jonik; 13. Popular networks in Melville's battle-pieces Eliza Richards; 14. The biographical re-turn: writing Melville biography and the example of women John Bryant; 15. Afterword: 'new', 'old', and 'with' Robert S. Levine.

About the author

Cody Marrs is Associate Professor of English at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War (2015) and the co-editor of Timelines of American Literature (forthcoming).

Summary

This volume collects and assesses all of the major new trends in Melville studies, testing them out in new readings and putting them into conversation with one another. It offers students and faculty alike a fresh view of Herman Melville, presenting him as a philosopher of the mind and the emotions.

Product details

• Authors: EDITED BY CODY MARRS, Cody Marrs, Cody (University of Georgia) Marrs
• Assisted by: Cody Marrs (Editor), Cody (University of Georgia) Marrs (Editor), Marrs Cody (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2018
• EAN: 9781108484039
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48403-9
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions; Twenty-First-Century Critical; Twenty-First Century Critical; Twenty-First-Century Critical; Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions; Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Adventure, FICTION / Action & Adventure, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Literature & literary studies, The Americas, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Adventure / action fiction, Classic fiction: general and literary