A historical guide to Herman Melville /
A historical guide to Herman Melville /
edited by Giles Gunn
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
- viii, 262 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Herman Melville, 1819-1891 : a brief biography / Melville in his time -- Romantic answers, Victorian questions : cultural possibilities for Melville at midcentury / Melville and class / Melville and the marketplace / Without the pale : Melville and ethnic cosmopolitanism / "Wandering to-and-fro" : Melville and religion / Bibliographical essay / Giles Gunn -- Robert Milder -- Leon Chai -- Myra Jehlen -- Sheila Post -- Timothy Marr -- Emory Elliott -- Giles Gunn
0195142810
Novelists, American
Literature and History--History--United States
813 / GUN/A
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / Herman Melville, 1819-1891 : a brief biography / Melville in his time -- Romantic answers, Victorian questions : cultural possibilities for Melville at midcentury / Melville and class / Melville and the marketplace / Without the pale : Melville and ethnic cosmopolitanism / "Wandering to-and-fro" : Melville and religion / Bibliographical essay / Giles Gunn -- Robert Milder -- Leon Chai -- Myra Jehlen -- Sheila Post -- Timothy Marr -- Emory Elliott -- Giles Gunn
0195142810
Novelists, American
Literature and History--History--United States
813 / GUN/A