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| Genre/Form: | Handbooks, manuals, etc Introduction Biography Handbooks, manuals, etc |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville; Herman Melville |
| Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Kevin J Hayes |
| ISBN: | 0521854806 9780521854801 0521671043 9780521671040 |
| OCLC Number: | 70831052 |
| Description: | xi, 140 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Cambridge introductions to literature. |
| Other Titles: | Herman Melville |
| Responsibility: | Kevin J. Hayes. |
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