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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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"This collection of essays makes an essential contribution to American literary scholarship by expanding the hermeneutical possibilities of theory and practice as well as enriching our understanding of Melville's literary works." - Review 19
"Melville and Aesthetics provides a snapshot of Melville criticism as it is currently practiced by some of the field's most accomplished interpreters. The volume treats a wide range of texts by Melville, including the poetry, and essay after essay wrestles with Melville's astonishing stylistic achievements with intelligence and verve.This is a volume that will be welcomed by students and specialists alike." - Jonathan Elmer, Professor of English and American Studies, Indiana University and author of On Lingering and Being Last: Race and Sovereignty in the New World
"Melville and Aesthetics gives us a set of elegant and interpretively rich essays that add up to a powerful argument about the essential place of aesthetics in Melville's career. The 'extravagant qualities of Melville's lines,' to use Otter and Sanborn's phrase, are made visible and analytically vital as never before." - Cindy Weinstein, Professor of English, California Institute of Technology
About the authors
SAMUEL OTTER is a Professor of English and Department Chair of the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Melville and Aesthetics
Editors: Samuel Otter, Geoffrey Sanborn
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230120044
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Samuel Otter and Geoffrey Sanborn 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11379-4Published: 20 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29556-2Published: 20 September 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-12004-4Published: 26 September 2011
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 263
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Fiction, Literary Theory, North American Literature, Cultural Anthropology, Aesthetics, Nineteenth-Century Literature