Melville S Other Lives
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Melville s Other Lives
Author | : Christopher Sten |
Publsiher | : University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2022-07-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813945453 |
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Melville’s Other Lives is the first book-length study on The Piazza Tales—Herman Melville’s only authorized collection of short fiction published in his lifetime—and the first book to explore the rich and varied subject of embodiment in any published collection of Melville’s stories. As Christopher Sten shows, all of the stories in The Piazza Tales present encounters between established white male figures: a writer, a lawyer, a ship captain, a homeowner, an architect, a world traveler, and characters who are outsiders, minorities, outcasts, or "others": a seamstress, an office drudge, enslaved Africans, a traveling salesman, island castaways, the poor. In each, Melville concentrates on the trials of the human body, its pain and trauma, its struggles and frustrations. Some tales concern common trials such as illness or invalidism ("The Piazza"), the tedium of office work ("Bartleby"), or the aggravation of door-to-door salesmen ("The Lightning-Rod Man"). Others concern extraordinary trials: the traumatic violence of a rebellion on a slave ship ("Benito Cereno"), the hardships of surviving on a wasteland archipelago ("The Encantadas"), the perils of creating a monstrous "man-machine" ("The Bell-Tower"). In their concern for the cultural meanings of such trials, Melville’s stories look forward to the work of Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, and other cultural materialists who have shown how cultures define, control, and oppress bodies based on their otherness. As a storyteller, Melville understood how such cultural dynamics operate and seized on our collective obsession with the human body as subject, symbol, and vehicle to dramatize his tales.
The Life of Andrew Melville
Author | : Thomas M'Crie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : Scotland |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB10065045 |
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Life of Andrew Melville
Author | : Thomas M'Crie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Reformation |
ISBN | : COLUMBIA:CU60728280 |
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The Life of Andrew Melville Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland During the Latter Part of the Sixteenth and Beginning of the Seventeenth Century With an Appendix of Original Papers
Author | : Thomas MACCRIE (D.D., the Elder.) |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 1819 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BL:A0027121110 |
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Melville in His Own Time
Author | : Steven Olsen-Smith |
Publsiher | : University of Iowa Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2015-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781609383336 |
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Owing to the decline of his contemporary fame and to decades of posthumous neglect, Herman Melville remains enigmatic to readers despite his status as one of America’s most securely canonical authors. Born into patrician wealth but plunged into poverty as a child, in 1840 he signed aboard the whaleship Acushnet in the midst of a nationwide depression and sailed to the South Pacific. At the Marquesas Islands, he deserted and lived for a time among one of the group’s last unsubjugated tribes. Upon his return home, he achieved overnight success with a book based on his experiences, Typee (1846). Melville’s mastery of the English language and heterodox views made him a source of both controversy and fascination to western readers, until his increasing commitment to artistry and contempt for artificial conventions led him to write Moby-Dick (1851) and its successor Pierre (1852). Although the former is considered his masterwork today, the books offended mid-nineteenth-century cultural sensibilities and alienated Melville from the American literary marketplace. The resulting eclipse of his popular reputation was deepened by his voluntary withdrawal from society, so that obituaries written after his death in 1891 frequently expressed surprise that he hadn’t died long before. With most of his personal papers and letters lost or destroyed, his library of marked and annotated books dispersed, and first-hand accounts of him scattered, brief, and frequently conflicting, Melville’s place in American literary scholarship illustrates the importance of accurately edited documents and the value of new information to our understanding of his life and thought. As a chronologically organized collection of surviving testimonials about the author, Melville in His Own Time continues the tradition of documentary research well-exemplified over the past half-century by the work of Jay Leyda, Merton M. Sealts, and Hershel Parker. Combining recently discovered evidence with new transcriptions of long-known but rarely consulted testimony, this collection offers the most up-to-date and correct record of commentary on Melville by individuals who knew him.
Life of Andrew Melville Containing Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Literary History of Scotland During the Latter Part of the Sixteenth and Beginning of the Seventeenth Century with an Appendix Consisting of Original Papers
Author | : Thomas M'Crie |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : EHC:148100023000J |
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A Companion to Herman Melville
Author | : Wyn Kelley |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 631 |
Release | : 2015-08-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781119045274 |
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In a series of 35 original essays, this companion demonstrates the relevance of Melville’s works in the twenty-first century. Presents 35 original essays by scholars from around the world, representing a range of different approaches to Melville Considers Melville in a global context, and looks at the impact of global economies and technologies on the way people read Melville Takes account of the latest and most sophisticated scholarship, including postcolonial and feminist perspectives Locates Melville in his cultural milieu, revising our views of his politics on race, gender and democracy Reveals Melville as a more contemporary writer than his critics have sometimes assumed
English Writers
Author | : Henry Morley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1892 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : ONB:+Z338746107 |
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