TY - BOOK AU - Gunn, Giles, ed. TI - A historical guide to Herman Melville SN - 0195142810 U1 - 813 PY - 2005/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Novelists, American KW - Literature and History KW - United States KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Giles Gunn --; Herman Melville, 1819-1891 : a brief biography; Robert Milder --; Melville in his time --; Romantic answers, Victorian questions : cultural possibilities for Melville at midcentury; Leon Chai --; Melville and class; Myra Jehlen --; Melville and the marketplace; Sheila Post --; Without the pale : Melville and ethnic cosmopolitanism; Timothy Marr --; "Wandering to-and-fro" : Melville and religion; Emory Elliott --; Bibliographical essay; Giles Gunn ER -