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Herman Melville
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- ISBN 9781119045274
- Weight: 930g
- Dimensions: 168 x 239mm
- Publication Date: 21 Aug 2015
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century.
- Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville
- Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville
- Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives
- Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy
- Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed
Wyn Kelley is Senior Lecturer in the Literature Faculty at MIT. The author of Melville’s City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996) and A Short Guide to Herman Melville (Blackwell Publishing, 2008), she is also Associate Editor of the Melville Electronic Library.
