Herman Melville: An Introduction

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Wiley, 29/01/2008 - 228 páginas
This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby-Dick, this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels.

  • Offers a brief introduction to Melville, covering all his major works
  • Showcases Melville's writing process through his correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Provides a clear sense of Melville's major themes and preoccupations
  • Focuses on Typee, Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd in individual chapters
  • Includes a biography, summary of key works, interpretation, commentary, and an extensive bibliography.

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Melvilles Life
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Agatha and the Invention of Narrative
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Typee and Omoo
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Wyn Kelley is a Senior Lecturer in the Literature Faculty at MIT. She is the author of Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996) and editor of A Companion to Herman Melville (Blackwell, 2006) and an edition of Benito Cereno 2006, and has also written a number of essays on Melville. She is Associate Director of the Melville Society journal Leviathan.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloHerman Melville: An Introduction
Volume 19 de Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature
AutorWyn Kelley
Ediçãoilustrada
EditoraWiley, 2008
Original deUniversidade de Michigan
Digitalizado10 Jun 2008
ISBN1405131586, 9781405131582
Número de páginas228 páginas
  
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