Melville's City argues that Melville's relationship to the city is considerably more complex than has generally been believed. By placing him in the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century New York, Kelley presents a Melville who borrows from the colorful cultural variety of the city while at the same time investigating its darker and more dangerous social aspects. Through examination of works spanning Melville's career, she forges a new analysis of the connections between urban and literary form.
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"Highly recommended for all collections." Choice
"These readings make an argument for the importance of urban forms to Melville's career, proving that Melville entertains a multiplicity of urban forms and perspectives and helping us to understand his place within antebellum American life." John Evelev, American Literature
"The growing body of criticism on literature and the city is notably enriched by the publication of this book, which reconsiders Herman Melville's oeuvre in light of its relationship to urban expansion in nineteenth-century America. Kelley's orginality lies in the categories she identifies that freshly illuminate the urban contexts of Melville's fiction." David S. Reynolds, 19th Century Literature
"...Melville's City is a rich...addition to the growing literature on the role of the urban in nineteenth-century writing." Haskell Springer, American Studies
"Ultimately, Kelley's text is an astute analysis of an important field of Melville scholarship. It is clearly a well-researched book--Kelley has studied (and apllied) Melville criticism in great depth. One comes away from Melville's City with a good sense of Melville's complex relationship with New York....Kelley's work highlights the oftentimes glossed-over relationship Melville had with that vast world away from the sea--the city." American Studies International
"These readings make an argument for the importance of urban forms to Melville's career, proving that Melville entertains a multiplicity of urban forms and perspectives and helping us to understand his place within antebellum American life." John Evelev, American Literature
"The growing body of criticism on literature and the city is notably enriched by the publication of this book, which reconsiders Herman Melville's oeuvre in light of its relationship to urban expansion in nineteenth-century America. Kelley's orginality lies in the categories she identifies that freshly illuminate the urban contexts of Melville's fiction." David S. Reynolds, 19th Century Literature
"...Melville's City is a rich...addition to the growing literature on the role of the urban in nineteenth-century writing." Haskell Springer, American Studies
"Ultimately, Kelley's text is an astute analysis of an important field of Melville scholarship. It is clearly a well-researched book--Kelley has studied (and apllied) Melville criticism in great depth. One comes away from Melville's City with a good sense of Melville's complex relationship with New York....Kelley's work highlights the oftentimes glossed-over relationship Melville had with that vast world away from the sea--the city." American Studies International
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Melville's City argues that Melville's relationship to the city is considerably more complex than has generally been believed. By placing him in the historical and cultural context of nineteenth-century New York, Kelley presents a Melville who borrows from the colorful cultural variety of the city while at the same time investigating its darker and more dangerous social aspects. Through examination of works spanning Melville's career, she forges a new analysis of the connections between urban and literary form.
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Before we can begin to talk about urban form in New York culture, we need to see how social and physical constructions of urban form grew out of the debate over how to use urban space. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
urban taxonomy, proudest town, labyrinth literature, citified man, social labyrinth, urban labyrinth, urban sublime, traveling the town, urban literature, urban novels, belted round, urban ideology, urban traveler, urban fiction, escaping the city, domestic individualism, urban readers, domestic literature, urban form, gridiron plan, lasting record, urban underworld Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, City of Man, Five Points, Moby Dick, Israel Potter, Long Ghost, Allan Melvill, Central Park, New Bedford, Saddle Meadows, Jimmy Rose, New Jerusalem, Van Huyden, Harry Bolton, Pearl Street, The House-Top, Lydia Maria Child, Pete Williams, Rich Man's Crumbs, Washington Irving, Collect Pond, Fifth Avenue, Gansevoort Melville, Gas Light, Greensward Plan New!
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urban taxonomy, proudest town, labyrinth literature, citified man, social labyrinth, urban labyrinth, urban sublime, traveling the town, urban literature, urban novels, belted round, urban ideology, urban traveler, urban fiction, escaping the city, domestic individualism, urban readers, domestic literature, urban form, gridiron plan, lasting record, urban underworld Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, City of Man, Five Points, Moby Dick, Israel Potter, Long Ghost, Allan Melvill, Central Park, New Bedford, Saddle Meadows, Jimmy Rose, New Jerusalem, Van Huyden, Harry Bolton, Pearl Street, The House-Top, Lydia Maria Child, Pete Williams, Rich Man's Crumbs, Washington Irving, Collect Pond, Fifth Avenue, Gansevoort Melville, Gas Light, Greensward Plan New!
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- Moby Dick (Bibliotheque Des Grands Classiques)(Illustrated) (French Edition) by Melville on 27 pages
- Moby Dick (Usborne Classics) by H Melville on 27 pages
- Subversive Genealogy: The Politics and Art of Herman Melville by Michael Paul Rogin on 6 pages
- Empire for Liberty by Wai Chee Dimock on 4 pages
- Letters from New-York by Lydia Maria Francis Child on 4 pages
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- The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Robert S. Levine on page 113, and Back Matter
- Writing of America: Literature and Cultural Identity from the Puritans to the Present (Cultural History of Literature) by Geoff Ward in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Early Native American Writing: New Critical Essays (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Helen Jaskoski in Front Matter
- The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Susan K. Harris in Front Matter
- Henry James' Last Romance: Making Sense of the Past and the American Scene (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture) by Beverly Haviland in Front Matter
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