Critical Insights: Moby-Dick

Publisher Salem Press

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2nd Edition 1st Edition

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Salem Press

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Copyright

2011

ISBN13

9781619254060

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eBook

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9th Grade - College Senior

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Overview

In-depth critical discussions of Melville's novel.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Dedication.
About This Volume.
The Book and Author.
1: On Moby-Dick.
2: Biography of Herman Melville.
Critical Contexts.
3: Sailor, Writer, Metaphysician.
4: The Critics and the Whale.
5: Critical Pluralism and Melville's Moby-Dick.
6: Miriam Coffin and Moby-Dick.
Critical Readings.
7: The Earliest Reactions to Moby-Dick: A Comprehensive Overview.
8: “New” Responses to Moby-Dick in the Nineteenth Century.
9: Melville's “The Town-Ho's Story” and the Merits of Historical Formalism.
10: The Limits of Ishmael's Reading in Moby-Dick.
11: Ishmael's Doubts and Intuitions: Religion in Moby-Dick.
12: Moby-Dick and Nineteenth-Century Natural History.
13: “We Account the Whale Immortal”: Fantasies of Ecological Abundance and Discourses of Extinction in Herman Melville's Moby-Dick.
14: Humor, Comic Personification, and the “Pathetic Fallacy” in Moby-Dick.
15: Teaching Melville and the Arts to Creative Students in a New Century.
Resources.
Chronology of Herman Melville's Life.
Works by Herman Melville.
Bibliography.
About the Editor.
Contributors.
Index.
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