Melville Sea Dictionary - A Glossed Concordance and Analysis of the Sea Language in Melville's Nautical Novels

?Melville's Sea Dictionary is a useful contribution to Melville scholarship. Gidmark's subject is a sea vocabulary, ' 345 nautical terms selected from Typee, Omoo, Redburn, White-Jacket, and Moby Dick; her object is the construction of a linguistic research tool with which to examine the art of Herman Melville at close quarters. . . . The Melville Sea Dictionary . . . should be in every academic library that supports graduate studies in American literature.?-Choice

About the author

JILL B. GIDMARK is Morse-Alumni Distinguished Professor of Literature and Writing at the University of Minnesota, General College. Her previous reference work is the Melville Sea Dictionary (Greenwood, 1982), and her essays have appeared in numerous scholarly journals and anthologies.

Product details

• Authors: Jill B. Gidmark, Gidmark Jill B.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.1982
• EAN: 9780313233302
• ISBN: 978-0-313-23330-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Classic fiction: general and literary, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, The Arts: American Literature