Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews

ISBN-13: 9780521414234 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 586 str.

Chicago) Brian Higgins (University of Illinois;Hershel Parker (University of Delaware)

Opis

Herman Melville: The Contemporary Reviews reprints virtually all the known contemporary reviews of his writings from the 1840s until his death in 1891. Many of the reviews are reprinted from hard-to-locate contemporary newspapers and periodicals. These materials document the response of the reviewers to specific works and show the course of Melville's nineteenth century reputation as travel writer, romancer, short-story writer, and poet.

Recenzje

Review of the hardback: 'A beautifully presented, meticulously researched volume.' Borderlines

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Typee; 2. Omoo; 3. Mardi; and A Voyage Thither; 4. Redburn; 5. White-jacket; 6. Moby-Dick; 7. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities; 8. Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile; 9. The Piazza tales; 10. The confidence-man: his masquerade; 11. Battle-pieces and aspects of the war; 12. Clarel: a poem and pilgrimage in the Holy Land; Index.