The new Melville studies

Summary: What does Melville studies look like after a phase of intense critical activity? This book addresses that question by analyzing Melville as a writer who was keenly interested in the pleasures, limits, and possibilities of various reading practices. It collects and assesses all of the major new trends in Melville studies. Essays, written by some of the leading scholars in the field, test out emerging critical methods. They explore Melville's centrality to American literary studies and consider the full range of Melville's career, connecting his poetry to his prose. This collection re-imagines Melville as a theorist as well as a writer, approaching his works as philosophical forms in their own right. It shows how scholars are changing Melville studies not only by re-orienting the texts upon which those studies are based, but also by incorporating new approaches that unsettle prior assumptions and interpretive claims.

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ISBN: 1108701833
ISBN: 9781108701839
ISBN: 1108646387
ISBN: 9781108646383
ISBN: 1108752896
ISBN: 9781108752893
ISBN: 1108484034
ISBN: 9781108484039
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 280 pages)
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Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Chapter 8 The Confidence-Man between GenresChapter 9 Melville's Style; Chapter 10 Melville and the Conceits of Theory; Chapter 11 Billy Budd: Pessimism for Post-Critique; Chapter 12 Melville, Mardi, and Materialism; Chapter 13 Popular Networks in Melville's Battle-Pieces; Chapter 14 The Biographical Re-Turn: Writing Melville Biography and the Example of Women; Chapter 15 Afterword: "New," "Old," and "With"; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, April 1, 2019). Print version record.