| A Historical Guide to Herman Melville Contributor(s): Gunn, Giles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0195142829 ISBN-13: 9780195142822 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $51.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2005 Annotation: This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set of perspectives on Melville's connections both with his own age and also with our own. This book makes the case, as does no other collection of criticism of its size, for Melville's commanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2004063564 |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.58" W x 8.22" (0.68 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set of perspectives on Melville's connections both with his own age and also with our own. This book makes the case, as does no other collection of criticism of its size, for Melville's commanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing. |