A historical guide to Herman Melville / / edited by Giles Gunn
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| Titolo: |
A historical guide to Herman Melville / / edited by Giles Gunn
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (272 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 813/.3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Novelists, American - 19th century |
| Literature and history - United States - History - 19th century | |
| Altri autori: |
GunnGiles B
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| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Herman Melville, 1819-1891: A Brief Biography -- MELVILLE IN HIS TIME -- Romantic Answers, Victorian Questions: Cultural Possibilities for Melville at Midcentury -- Melville and Class -- Melville and the Marketplace -- Without the Pale: Melville and Ethnic Cosmopolitanism -- "Wandering To-and-Fro": Melville and Religion -- Illustrated Chronology -- Bibliographical Essay -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Essays on Melville's life & writing here make the case for his centrality both to 19th century writing in America & also to America's understanding of itself. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | A historical guide to Herman Melville |
| ISBN: | 1-280-53125-8 |
| 1-4237-6222-3 | |
| 0-19-972904-2 | |
| 1-60256-998-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815328003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Historical guides to American authors.