03256nam 22004572 450 991081201940332120170818134918.01-78694-415-41-942954-24-7(CKB)3710000001018978(MiAaPQ)EBC4791370(StDuBDS)EDZ0001718592(UkCbUP)CR9781942954248(PPN)240115236(EXLCZ)99371000000101897820170307d2016|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMelville's intervisionary network Balzac, Hawthorne, and realism in the American renaissance /John Haydock[electronic resource]First edition.Liverpool :Liverpool University Press,2016.1 online resource (viii, 333 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).1-942954-23-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.The romances of Herman Melville, author of <i>Moby-Dick</i> and <i>Billy Budd</i>, <i>Sailor</i>, are usually examined from some setting almost exclusively American. European or other planetary contexts are subordinated to local considerations. But while this isolated approach plays well in an arena constructed on American exclusiveness, it does not express the reality of the literary processes swirling around Melville in the middle of the nineteenth century. A series of expanding literary and technological networks was active that made his writing part of a global complex. Honoré de Balzac, popular French writer and creator of realism in the novel, was also in the web of these same networks, both preceding and at the height of Melville's creativity. Because they engaged in similar intentions, there developed an almost inevitable attraction that brought their works together. Until recently, however, Balzac has not been recognized as a significant influence on Melville during his most creative period. Over the last decade, scholars began to explore literary networks by new methodologies, and the criticism developed out of these strategies pertains usually to modernist, postcolonial, contemporary situations. Remarkably, however, the intertextuality of Melville with Balzac is quite exactly a casebook study in transcultural comparativism. Looking at Melville's innovative environment reveals meaningful results where the networks take on significant roles equivalent to what have been traditionally classed as genetic contacts. <i>Intervisionary Network</i> explores a range of these connections and reveals that Melville was dependent on Balzac and his universal vision in much of his prose writing. <br>Realism in literatureAmerican literature19th centuryHistory and criticismRealism in literature.American literatureHistory and criticism.813/.3Haydock John903116UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910812019403321Melville's intervisionary network3989132UNINA