A historical guide to Herman Melville
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A historical guide to Herman Melville
（Historical guides to American authors）
Oxford University Press, 2005
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"Illustrated chronology": p. [205]-224
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-241) and index
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Description
This collection gathers together original essays dealing with Melville's relations with his historical era, with class, with the marketplace, with ethnic otherness, and with religion. These essays are framed by a new, short biography by Robert Milder, an introduction by Giles Gunn, an illustrated chronology, and a bibliographical essay. Taken together, these pieces afford a fresh and searching set of perspectives on Melville's connections both with his own age and
also with our own. This book makes the case, as does no other collection of criticism of its size, for Melville's commanding centrality to nineteenth-century American writing.
Table of Contents
Giles Gunn: Introduction
Melville in His Time
1: Robert Milder: Herman Melville, 1819-1891: A Brief Biography
2: Leon Chai: Romantic Answers, Victorian Questions: Cultural Possibilities for Melville at Mid-Century
3: Myra Jehlen: Melville and Class
4: Sheila Post: Melville and the Marketplace
5: Timothy Marr: Without the Pale: Melville and Ethnic Cosmopolitanism
6: Emory Elliott: "Wandering To-and-Fro": Melville and Religion
Illustrated Chronology
Giles Gunn: Bibliographical Essay
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