Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Melville-Young
Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen: Melville-Young
Author: Robert Chambers
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Melville, Shame, and the Evil Eye
Author: Joseph Adamson
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432808
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd."
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791432808
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Offers a complex analysis of the psychodynamic role of shame in Melville's work, with detailed readings of Moby-Dick, Pierre, and "Billy Budd."
Herman Melville
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801881862
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1070
Book Description
Traces Melville's life from his childhood in New York, through his adventures abroad as a sailor, to his creation of "Moby-Dick," and forty years later, to his death, in obscurity.
Douglass and Melville
Author: Robert K. Wallace
Publisher: Spinner Publications
ISBN: 9780932027917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland; Herman Melville was born into prosperity in New York. Despite their divergent backgrounds, these contemporary American authors shared amazingly similar ideas about the most pressing issues of their day, including war, slavery, abolition, and race relations. They also lived and worked near each other during the peak of their careers. Did they meet? Author Robert K. Wallace raises that provacative question, seeking clues as he follows their parallel footsteps through New Bedford, New York City and Albany in this most unusal and fasicnating book! File it under "biography," or "American History" or "American literature" or "abolition" or just plain "good reading!"
Publisher: Spinner Publications
ISBN: 9780932027917
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland; Herman Melville was born into prosperity in New York. Despite their divergent backgrounds, these contemporary American authors shared amazingly similar ideas about the most pressing issues of their day, including war, slavery, abolition, and race relations. They also lived and worked near each other during the peak of their careers. Did they meet? Author Robert K. Wallace raises that provacative question, seeking clues as he follows their parallel footsteps through New Bedford, New York City and Albany in this most unusal and fasicnating book! File it under "biography," or "American History" or "American literature" or "abolition" or just plain "good reading!"
Melville's Evermoving Dawn
Author: John Bryant
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This collection of analytical essays is the result of several conferences throughout 1991, the centennary of Herman Melville's death. They survey the past and present of Melville Studies and suggest directions for the future.
Publisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873385626
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
This collection of analytical essays is the result of several conferences throughout 1991, the centennary of Herman Melville's death. They survey the past and present of Melville Studies and suggest directions for the future.
Herman Melville: 1851-1891
Author: Hershel Parker
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801868924
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1072
Book Description
Through prodigious archival research into hundreds of family letters and diary entries, newly discovered newspaper articles, and marginalia from books that Melville owned, Parker vividly recreates the last four decades of Melville's life, episode after episode unknown to previous biographers. Illustrations.
Melville and Aesthetics
Author: G. Sanborn
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230120040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230120040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 505
Book Description
In an original and provocative series of readings that range across Melville's career, the contributors consider not only the sources and implications of Melville's aesthetics, but the relationship between aesthetic criticism, historical analysis, and contemporary theory.
African Culture and Melville's Art
Author: Sterling Stuckey
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195372700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of fiction, Sterling Stuckey reveals how African customs and rituals heavily influenced one of America's greatest novelists.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195372700
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 167
Book Description
Presenting a groundbreaking reappraisal of these two powerful pieces of fiction, Sterling Stuckey reveals how African customs and rituals heavily influenced one of America's greatest novelists.
Herman Melville in Context
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316766969
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville's life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville's writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316766969
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Herman Melville in Context provides the fullest introduction in one volume to the multifaceted life and times of Herman Melville, a towering figure in nineteenth-century American and world literature. The book grounds the study of Herman Melville's writings to the world that influenced their composition, publication and recognition, making it a valuable resource to scholars, teachers, students and general readers. Bringing together contributions covering a wide range of topics, the collection of essays covers the geographical, social, cultural and literary contexts of Melville's life and works, as well as its literary reception. Herman Melville in Context will enable readers to approach Melville's writings with fuller insight, and to read and understand them in a way that approximates the way they were read and understood in his time.