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by: Giles Gunn
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.3
EAN: 9780195142815
ISBN: 0195142810
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: June 02, 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 2104854
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set of perspectives on Melville's connections both with his own age and also with our own. This book makes the case, as does no other collection of criticism of its size, for Melville's commanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing.
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Rating: - gives depth to an understanding of Melville's works
Be aware that Gunn assumes you have read most of Melville's major works. Gunn then attempts here to put those writings in the perspective of Melville's life and the society that he was in - 19th century United States. This provides an authentic context from which his works sprang, and against which they should perhaps best be judged.
So we see here threads of major events and ideas that ran through American society, mostly before the Civil War. Some touch upon the religious passions ... Read More
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