Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- References to Herman Melville’s Works
- Introduction: Seeking Melville
- 1 Defining Melville: The Melville Revival and Biographical and Textual Criticism
- 2 Literary Aesthetics and the Visual Arts
- 3 Melville’s Beard I: Religion, Ethics, and Epistemology
- 4 Melville’s Beard II: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
- 5 Aspects of America: Democracy, Nationalism, and War
- 6 “An Anacharsis Clootz Deputation”: Race, Ethnicity, Empire, and Cosmopolitanism
- Epilogue: Encountering Melville
- Works Cited
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- References to Herman Melville’s Works
- Introduction: Seeking Melville
- 1 Defining Melville: The Melville Revival and Biographical and Textual Criticism
- 2 Literary Aesthetics and the Visual Arts
- 3 Melville’s Beard I: Religion, Ethics, and Epistemology
- 4 Melville’s Beard II: Gender, Sexuality, and the Body
- 5 Aspects of America: Democracy, Nationalism, and War
- 6 “An Anacharsis Clootz Deputation”: Race, Ethnicity, Empire, and Cosmopolitanism
- Epilogue: Encountering Melville
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
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- Melville's MirrorsLiterary Criticism and America's Most Elusive Author, pp. 205 - 210Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011