Herman Melville (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405131582)

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Format: Paperback
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Herman Melville

$43.95

Herman Melville

$43.95
Format: Paperback
Description
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This unique introduction explores Herman Melville as he described himself in Billy Budd-"a writer whom few know." Moving beyond the recurring depiction of Melville as the famous author of Moby-Dick, this book traces his development as a writer while providing the basic tools for successful critical reading of his novels.

  • Offers a brief introduction to Melville, covering all his major works
  • Showcases Melville's writing process through his correspondence with Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Provides a clear sense of Melville's major themes and preoccupations
  • Focuses on Typee, Moby-Dick, and Billy Budd in individual chapters
  • Includes a biography, summary of key works, interpretation, commentary, and an extensive bibliography.


Author: Kelley
ISBN-10: 1405131586
ISBN-13: 9781405131582
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Language: English
Published: 01/21/2008
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.05w x 0.71d
By Kelley
By Kelley
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Wyn Kelley is a Senior Lecturer in the Literature Faculty at MIT. She is the author of Melville's City: Literary and Urban Form in Nineteenth-Century New York (1996) and editor of A Companion to Herman Melville (Blackwell, 2006) and an edition of Benito Cereno 2006, and has also written a number of essays on Melville. She is Associate Director of the Melville Society journal Leviathan.

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