Kelley Herman Melville

An Introduction
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-69327-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Introductions to Literature

This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he describedhimself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond therecurring depiction of Melville as the famous author ofMoby-Dick, this book traces his development as a writerwhile providing the basic tools for successful critical reading ofhis novels.
* * Offers a brief introduction to Melville, covering all his majorworks
* Showcases Melville's writing process through his correspondencewith Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Provides a clear sense of Melville's major themes andpreoccupations
* Focuses on Typee, Moby-Dick, and BillyBudd in individual chapters
* Includes a biography, summary of key works, interpretation,commentary, and an extensive bibliography.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kelley, Wyn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Texts and Abbreviations.
List of Illustrations.
Acknowledgments.
Preface.
Part I: Introduction.
1. Melville's Life.
2. 'Agatha' and the Invention of Narrative.
Part II: Melville's Early Yarns.
3. 'Making Literary Use of the Story': Typeeand Omoo.
4. 'A Regular Story Founded on Striking Incidents':Mardi, Redburn, and White-Jacket.
Part III: Writing New Gospel in Moby-Dick andPierre.
5. 'So Much of Pathos & So Much of Depth':Moby-Dick.
6. 'All Tender Obligations': Pierre.
Part IV: Turning a New Leaf: Short Fiction, IsraelPotter, and The Confidence-Man.
7. 'A Leaf from Professional Experience': ShortFiction of the 1850s.
8. 'Peculiarly Latitudinarian Notions': IsraelPotter and The Confidence-Man.
Part V: Melville's Later Career.
9. 'Fulness & Veins & Beauty':Battle-Pieces and Clarel.
10. 'Different Considerations': Late Poetry.
11. 'Instinct with Significance': BillyBudd.
Afterword: 'Restoring To You Your Own Property':Owning Melville.
Appendix: The 'Agatha' Correspondence.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wyn Kelley is a Senior Lecturer in the Literature Faculty atMIT. She is the author of Melville's City: Literary and UrbanForm in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996) and editor of ACompanion to Herman Melville (Blackwell, 2006) and an editionof Benito Cereno 2006, and has also written a number ofessays on Melville. She is Associate Director of the MelvilleSociety journal Leviathan.