How D. H. Lawrence Read Herman Melville

Details Lawrence's reception of Melville and reveals his underacknowledged role in the Melville Revival, while contributing to the history of the book and the study of the creative process.

List of contents

Introduction
1: An English Midlands Bookshelf
2: An Archway into the Future
3: Everyman and the Dead Narrator
4: How Moby-Dick Shaped Women in Love
5: A Little Hesperides of the Soul and Body
6: The Symbolistic All-Knowledge
7: The Melville Centenary
8: Typee under Etna
9: Two Days in Tahiti
10: The Voyage Home
Index

About the author

KEVIN J. HAYES is emeritus Professor of English at the University of Central Oklahoma. He is the author of many books including George Washington: A Life in Books (2017) for which he won the $50,000 George Washington Prize, and At War with The Red Badge of Courage: A Critical and Cultural History (Camden House, 2020).

Product details

• Authors: Kevin J Hayes, Kevin J. Hayes, Kevin J. (Royalty Account) Hayes
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2021
• EAN: 9781640141100
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-110-0
• No. of pages: 206
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 418 g
• Series: Studies in English and American Literature and Culture; Studies in English and America
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous