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

References to Herman Melville's Works
Introduction: Seeking Melville
Defining Melville: The Melville Revival andBiographical 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 is Professor and Chair of English at St. Louis University.

Product details

• Authors: Brian Yothers
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2011
• EAN: 9781571135094
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-509-4
• No. of pages: 222
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 476 g
• Series: Literary Criticism in Perspect
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous