LEADER 03587nam 22005172 450 001 996210789403316 005 20151109030844.0 010 $a1-107-46092-1 010 $a1-139-14995-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000497580 035 $a(PromptCat)40023090192 035 $a(MH)013904556-2 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001080169 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12424272 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001080169 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11069344 035 $a(PQKB)11082874 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139149952 035 $a(UK-CbPIL)2069231 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000497580 100 $a20110830d2014|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe new Cambridge companion to Herman Melville /$fedited by Robert S. Levine, University of Maryland, College Park$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 255 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge companions to literature 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). 311 $a1-107-68791-8 311 $a1-107-02313-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 233-243) and index. 327 $aMelville and the nonhuman world / Geoffrey Sanborn -- Melville and oceanic studies / Hester Blum -- Democracy and Melville's aesthetics / Jennifer Greiman -- White-jacket : Telling who is -- and aint -- a slave / Jeannine Marie Delombard -- Reading Moby-Dick / Samuel Otter -- Pierre, life history, and the obscure / Wyn Kelley -- "Bartleby" and the magazine fiction / Graham Thompson -- Skepticism and The Confidence-Man / Maurice S. Lee -- Melville the poet in the postbellum world / Elizabeth Renker -- Judgment in Billy Budd / Gregg Crane -- Melville and queerness without character / Michael D. Snediker -- Melville with pictures / Elisa Tamarkin -- Melville's planetary compass / Timothy Marr -- Wound, beast, revision : versions of the Melville Meme / John Bryant -- Cold war allegories and the politics of criticism / Christopher Castiglia. 330 $aThe New Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville provides timely, critical essays on Melville's classic works. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume and provide a complete overview of Melville's career. Melville's major novels are discussed, along with a range of his short fiction and poetry, including neglected works ripe for rediscovery. The volume includes essays on such new topics as Melville and oceanic studies, Melville and animal studies, and Melville and the planetary, along with a number of essays that focus on form and aesthetics. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, this New Companion brings together a team of leading international scholars to offer students of American literature the most comprehensive introduction available to Melville's art. 410 0$aCambridge companions to literature. 676 $a813/.3 702 $aLevine$b Robert S$g(Robert Steven),$f1953- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a996210789403316 996 $aThe new Cambridge companion to Herman Melville$92493351 997 $aUNISA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress