Takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly defined as spiritual are essential to understanding nineteenth-century American literary culture.
Takes David S. Reynolds's classic study Beneath the American Renaissance as a model and a provocation to consider how language and concepts broadly de...
Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous short stories, Bartleby, the Scrivener and Benito Cereno, along with the less well-known but deeply engaging sketches of the Galapagos Islands and three more short stories.
Herman Melville's The Piazza Tales is the only collection of short fiction that he published in his lifetime, and it includes his two most famous shor...
