Herman Melville Moby-Dick - Essays - Articles - Reviews |
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Editor:
| Selby, Nick |
Series title: | Columbia Critical Guides |
ISBN: | 978-0-231-11538-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1999 |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $75.00 |
Book Description:
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This Columbia Critical Guidestarts with extracts from Melville's own letters and essays and from early reviews of Moby-Dickthat set the terms for later critical evaluations. Subsequent chapters deal with the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s and the novel's central place in the establishment, growth, and reassessment of American Studies in the 1940s and 1950s. The final chapters examine postmodern New Americanist readings of the text, and how these provide new models for...
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This Columbia Critical Guidestarts with extracts from Melville's own letters and essays and from early reviews of Moby-Dickthat set the terms for later critical evaluations. Subsequent chapters deal with the "Melville Revival" of the 1920s and the novel's central place in the establishment, growth, and reassessment of American Studies in the 1940s and 1950s. The final chapters examine postmodern New Americanist readings of the text, and how these provide new models for thinking about American culture.