The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / Kevin J. Hayes.
Hayes, Kevin J.
2007
PS2386 .H35 2007 (Mapit)
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Title The Cambridge introduction to Herman Melville / Kevin J. Hayes.
Author Hayes, Kevin J.
ISBN 9780521671040 (pbk.)
0521671043 (pbk.)
9780521854801
0521854806
Imprint Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Language English
Description xi, 140 p. ; 23 cm.
Call Number PS2386 .H35 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification 813.3
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Series Cambridge introductions to literature.
Linked Resources Table of contents only
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1. Life
2. Contexts
The existential context
The historical context
The urban context
The visual context
The psychological context
The American context
The context of labor
The context of slavery
The world context
The imaginative context
3. Writings
The faces of Typee
Omoo : the rover as flaneur
Becoming a great writer : Mardi, Redburn, White-Jacket
Confronting Moby-Dick
Pierre : the making of a tragic hero
Private letters
Rewriting history : Israel Potter and "Benito Cereno"
Modern man : "The lightning-rod man," The confidence-man, "Bartleby, the scrivener"
Battle-pieces : the voices of war
Clarel, and American epic
The return to prose : Burgundy Club sketches, John Marr
Billy Budd : visions and revisions
4. Reception.

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