紹介
The Cambridge Companion to Herman Melville is intended to provide a critical introduction to Melville's work. The essays have been specially commissioned for this volume, and provide a comprehensive overview of Melville's career. All of Melville's key works, including Moby-Dick, Typee, White Jacket, The Tambourine in Glory and The Confidence Man, are examined, as well as most of his poetry and short fiction. Written at a level both challenging and accessible, the volume provides fresh perspectives on one of the most significant writers of nineteenth-century America whose work continues to fascinate readers and stimulate new study.
目次
Chronology
1. Introduction Robert S. Levine
2. 'Race' in Typee and White-Jacket Samuel Otter
3. The tambourine in glory: African culture and Melville's art Sterling Stuckey
4. Moby-Dick as revolution John Bryant
5. Pierre's Domestic Ambiguities Wyn Kelley
6. 'A- !': unreadability in The Confidence Man Elizabeth Renker
7. Melville the poet Lawrence Buell
8. Melville's travelling God Jenny Franchot
9. Melville and sexuality Robert K. Martin
10. Melville, labor, and the discourses of reception Cindy Weinstein
11. 'Bewildering Intertanglement': Melville's engagement with British culture Paul Giles
12. Afterword Andrew Delbanco.
