A new companion to Herman Melville
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A new companion to Herman Melville
（Blackwell companions to literature and culture, 104）
Wiley Blackwell, 2022
[2nd ed]
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Previous ed. published in 2006
"In the first Blackwell companion to Herman Melville (2006), Wyn Kelley framed this American author as a global Melville."--P. [1]
Includes index
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Description
Discover a fascinating new set of perspectives on the life and work of Herman Melville
A New Companion to Herman Melville delivers an insightful examination of Melville for the twenty-first century. Building on the success of the first Blackwell Companion to Herman Melville, and offering a variety of tools for reading, writing, and teaching Melville and other authors, this New Companion offers critical, technological, and aesthetic practices that can be employed to read Melville in exciting and revelatory ways.
Editors Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge create a framework that reflects a pluralistic model for humanities teaching and research. In doing so, the contributing authors highlight the ways in which Melville himself was concerned with the utility of tools within fluid circuits of meaning, and how those ideas are embodied, enacted, and mediated.
In addition to considering critical theories of race, gender, sexuality, religion, transatlantic and hem ispheric studies, digital humanities, book history, neurodiversity, and new biography and reception studies, this book offers:
A thorough introduction to the life of Melville, as well as the twentieth- and twenty-first-century revivals of his work
Comprehensive explorations of Melville's works, including Moby-Dick, Pierre, Piazza Tales, and Israel Potter, as well as his poems and poetic masterpiece Clarel
Practical discussions of material books, print culture, and digital technologies as applied to Melville
In-depth examinations of Melville's treatment of the natural world
Two symposium sections with concise reflections on art and adaptation, and on teaching and public engagement
A New Companion to Herman Melville provides essential reading for scholars and students ranging from undergraduate and graduate students to more advanced scholars and specialists in the field.
Table of Contents
- Contributors xi Acknowledgments xix Introduction 1 Wyn Kelley and Christopher Ohge Part I Lives 9 1 Melville the Life: Accident, Coincidence, and Adjacency 11 John Bryant 2 Melville's Twentieth-Century Revivals 23 Maki Sadahiro 3 Melville's Twenty-First Century Lives: Reception and Criticism 36 Brian Yothers Part II Works 53 4 Typee and Omoo 55 Mary K. Bercaw Edwards 5 Melville's Mardi: "A Certain Something Unmanageable" 66 Timothy Marr 6 Discipline and Pleasure in Redburn and White-Jacket 78 Edouard Marsoin 7 Moby-Dick 91 Geoffrey Sanborn 8 Spiritualism in Pierre
- or, The Ambiguities 102 Hannah Lauren Murray 9 Refugee, Exile, Alien: Israel Potter's Migrant Turns 113 Rodrigo Lazo 10 In Other Worlds: Mystery and Method in The Piazza Tales 123 Christopher Sten 11 Art of the Scam: The Confidence-Man 134 Caitlin Smith 12 Lyric Anonymity in Battle-Pieces 147 Tony McGowan 13 Re-writing the Holy Land Narrative Tradition: Clarel as Poetic Pilgrimage 160 Jonathan A. Cook 14 "The Fair Poet's Name": Late Poems 171 Peter Riley 15 Melville's "Ragged Edges": Billy Budd, Sailor and the Arts of Incompletion 184 John Wenke Part III Texts, Print Culture, and Digital Technologies 197 16 "A Widow with Her Husband Alive!": Gender, Collaboration, and Melville Studies 199 Adam Fales and Jordan Alexander Stein 17 Melville's Cervantes 212 Rosa Angelica Martinez 18 Melville's Shakespeare: Survivors and Stepmothers 224 David Greven 19 Melville's Milton: Of the Devil's Party and Knows It 236 Justina Torrance 20 Genre, Race, and the Printed Book 248 Katie McGettigan 21 Melville and Periodical Culture 261 Graham Thompson 22 Mediating Babo 272 Robert K. Wallace 23 Books and Marginalia, Real and Virtual 283 Steven Olsen-Smith 24 Counting (on) Melville: Moby-Dick, Computational Literary Studies, and Dictionary-Based Readings 297 Dennis Mischke 25 Digital Melville: Computation and Dead-Reckoning 313 Christopher Ohge Part IV Circuits and Systems 329 26 Transatlantic Crossings 331 Edward Sugden 27 Holy Dread: Taboo in Typee and "The Whiteness of the Whale" 341 Alex Calder 28 Melville's "Spanish": Geopolitics and Language in a Continental Writer 352 Emilio Irigoyen 29 The Pequod as Middle Passage: Melville's Meditation on the "Long" Shipwreck 362 Michael E. Sawyer 30 Melville's Spectral Mutinies 373 Lenora Warren 31 Religion and Secularity 383 Dawn Coleman 32 Ruthless, Radical Democracy 399 Jennifer Greiman 33 Melville and Masculinity 410 Ellen Weinauer 34 Melville and Philosophy: Will, Agency, and "Natural Justice" 422 Michael Jonik 35 Tawny Savages and Blank-Looking Girls: Melville, Capitalism, and Racialized Labor 436 Ivy G. Wilson Part V The Natural World 445 36 Ocean 447 Richard J. King 37 Verdure 460 Tom Nurmi 38 Anatomy 472 Jennifer J. Baker 39 A "Mute Wooing": Animism in Pierre 485 Pilar Martinez Benedi and Ralph James Savarese Part VI Symposium I: Art and Adaptation 497 40 Art and Illustration 499 Matt Kish 41 Anthologizing Moby-Dick
- or, Classifying a Chaos 506 Kylan Rice and Elizabeth Schultz 42 On Ekphrasis 512 Dan Beachy-Quick 43 Melville in Film Adaptation: The Lives and Deaths of Pip 519 Jaime Campomar Part VII Symposium II: Teaching, Learning, and Public Engagement 527 44 "Of Whales in Paint": Melville in the High School Classroom 529 Jeffrey Markham 45 Diversity, Reading Publics, and the Community College 535 James Noel 46 Teaching Melville Through the Lens of Popular Culture 541 Martina Pfeiler 47 Visualizing Melville: A Museum Exhibition Perspective 550 Michael P. Dyer Index 559
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