Melville, Beauty, and American Literary Studies: An Aesthetics in All Things

ISBN-13: 9780192871725 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 160 str.

University Professor of English Cody (Professor of English

Recenzje

Cody Marrs enables us to see an aspect of Melville's writing that has always been before our eyes but has never before been regarded with such acuity: a sustained attention to beauty as a shared, transformative experience, defined in relation to suffering and violence, that connects perceivers to the wider world. Marrs amplifies our experience of Melville-and 'experience' is a key term for him, as he redirects attention not only to the significance of beauty in Melville's fiction, poetry, and journals but also to the experience of reading literature and literary criticism.

O autorze

Cody Marrs is Professor of English at the University of Georgia, where he teaches and writes about American literature. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century American Literature and the Long Civil War and Not Even Past: The Stories We Keep Telling About the Civil War; the editor of The New Melville Studies; the General Editor of Nineteenth-Century American Literature in Transition; and a co-editor of Timelines of American Literature. His work has also appeared in journals such as American Literature, J19, and American Literary History.