The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's novels are discussed, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on an American author whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.
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The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's novels are discussed, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on an American author whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.
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In the first phase of his career, the extended fiction from Typee (1846) through Pierre (1852), Melville is fascinated with "race." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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In the first phase of his career, the extended fiction from Typee (1846) through Pierre (1852), Melville is fascinated with "race." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
avenging dream, religious otherness, anthropological encounter, whale skin, sea novels, grassy glades, ring dance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Herman Melville, Billy Budd, Newberry Library, Harrison Hayford, Benito Cereno, Hershel Parker, United States, Thomas Tanselle, Don Benito, American Renaissance, South Seas, Harvard University Press, Moby Dick, University of California Press, Historical Note, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Collected Poems, Northwestern Univ, San Dominick, Cambridge University Press, Hendricks House, Holy Land, John Bryant, New Haven New!
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- Billy Budd and Other Stories (Penguin Classics) by Herman Melville on 42 pages
- Benito Cereno (Spanish Edition) by Herman Melville on 25 pages
- White-Jacket by Herman Melville on 21 pages
- American Literature (Widener Library Shelflist, Nos. 26 and 27) by Richard De Gennard on 10 pages
- Moby Dick (Usborne Classics) by H Melville on 8 pages
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- Herman Melville's Moby-Dick: A Routledge Study Guide and Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature) by Michael J. Davey on 5 pages
- Romantic Cyborgs: Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance by Klaus Benesch in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Exiled Royalties: Melville and the Life We Imagine by Robert Milder in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Family, Kinship, and Sympathy in Nineteenth-Century American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Cindy Weinstein in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races, 1800-1930 by Patrick Brantlinger in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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