LEADER 02940oam 2200613I 450 001 9910787720603321 005 20170821160156.0 010 $a1-135-48963-7 010 $a0-203-95921-3 010 $a1-135-48956-4 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203959213 035 $a(CKB)2670000000518778 035 $a(EBL)1619257 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001108484 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12461631 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001108484 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11103607 035 $a(PQKB)10594860 035 $a(OCoLC)874172981 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1619257 035 $a(OCoLC)870272635 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000518778 100 $a20180331d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMelville's monumental imagination /$fIan S. Maloney 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2006. 215 $a1 online resource (177 p.) 225 0 $aStudies in major literary authors 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-415-86719-3 311 $a0-415-97531-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction Melville's Monumental Mind; Chapter One Peeping into Polynesian Memorials: Ekphrastic Indifference in Travel and Typee; Chapter Two Plodding through Mardi's Mazes and Monuments: The Imaginary Voyage into Ekphrastic Hope; Chapter Three Redburn's Realistic Journey of Ekphrastic Fear; Chapter Four Frozen Figures, Fluid Forms, and Moby-Dick; Chapter Five Pierre and Israel Potter: Fragments and Forgotten Heroes in Stone and Print; Bibliography; Index 330 $aMelville's Monumental Imagination explores the connection between the contested 19th century American monument tradition and one of the nation's most revered authors, Herman Melville (1819-1891). The book was written to fill a void in recent Melville scholarship. To date, there has not been a monograph that focuses exclusively on Melville's incorporation of monuments in his fictional world. The book charts the territory of Melville's novels in order to provide a trajectory of the monumental image in one particular literary form. This feature allows the reader to gradually see the monu 410 0$aStudies in Major Literary Authors 606 $aDescription (Rhetoric)$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aMonuments in literature 606 $aMemorials in literature 615 0$aDescription (Rhetoric)$xHistory 615 0$aMonuments in literature. 615 0$aMemorials in literature. 676 $a813/.3 700 $aMaloney$b Ian S.$f1975,$01498775 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787720603321 996 $aMelville's monumental imagination$93724414 997 $aUNINA