Melville's Mirrors - Literary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author

An accessible and highly readable guide to the story of Melville criticism as it has developed over the past century and a half.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Paperback Edition: Melville's Critical Reception at His Bicentennial
References to Herman Melville's Works
Introduction: Seeking Melville
Defining Melville: The Melville Revival and Biographical and Textual Criticism
Literary Aesthetics and the Visual Arts
Melville's Beard I: Religion, Ethics, and Epistemology
Melville's Beard II: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
Aspects of America: Democracy, Nationalism, and War
"An Anacharsis Clootz Deputation": Race, Ethnicity, Empire, and Cosmopolitanism
Epilogue: Encountering Melville
Works Cited
Index

About the author

Brian Yothers

Product details

• Authors: Brian Yothers
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9781640140530
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-053-0
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 318 g
• Series: Studies in American Literature; Literary Criticism in Perspect
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous