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

Product details

• Authors: Jill B. Gidmark, Gidmark Jill B.
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• 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