Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies - An Aesthetics in All Things

In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.

List of contents

• List of Illustrations


• Acknowledgements


• Preface: Beauty in a Time of Pain


• Introduction


• 1: Ancient Beauty in Timoleon


• 2: Floral Beauty in Weeds and Wildings


• 3: Appalling Beauty in Moby-Dick


• Postscript: A Note on Method


• Notes

About the author

Cody Marrs is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches and writes about American literature. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War and Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War; the editor of The New Melville Studies; the General Editor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition; and a co-editor of Timelines of American Literature. His work has also appeared in journals such as American Literature, J19, and American Literary History.

Summary

In this fascinating book, Cody Marrs retraces Melville's engagement with beauty and provides a revisionary account of Melville's philosophy, aesthetics, and literary career.

Additional text

Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies should be taken as a celebration of what literature does, rather than as a condemnation of historicism and contextualization. It provides fresh, doughty readings of not-so-familiar texts as well as an invigorating contribution to literary theoretical methodology discourse.

Product details

• Authors: Cody Marrs, Cody (Professor of English Marrs, Marrs Cody
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.02.2023
• EAN: 9780192871725
• ISBN: 978-0-19-287172-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Oxford Studies in American Literary History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Philosophy: aesthetics, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers