Moby-Dick, Or, The WhaleNorthwestern University Press, 1988 - 1043 sider In Moby Dick Melville set out to write a "mighty book" on "a mighty theme." The editors of this critical text affirm that he succeeded. Nevertheless, their prolonged examination of the novel reveals textual flaws and anomalies that help to explain Melville's fears that his great work was in some ways a hash or a botch. A lengthy historical note also gives a fresh account of Melville's earlier literary career and his working conditions as he wrote; it also analyzes the book's contemporary reception and outlines how it finally achieved fame. Other sections review theories of the book's genesis, detail the circumstances of its publication, and present documents closely relating to the story. -- Amazon.com. |
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... literary and artistic life . In Duyckinck's hospitable house on Clinton Place Melville enjoyed the literary talk of members of a coterie that included the novelist and propagandist for American literature Cor- nelius Mathews , and there ...
... literary and artistic life . In Duyckinck's hospitable house on Clinton Place Melville enjoyed the literary talk of members of a coterie that included the novelist and propagandist for American literature Cor- nelius Mathews , and there ...
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... Literary World will be discussed below in the sequence of important American reviews , but it needs to be mentioned here in relation to Melville's mounting anger over it , as displayed in Pierre and in his cancellation of his ...
... Literary World will be discussed below in the sequence of important American reviews , but it needs to be mentioned here in relation to Melville's mounting anger over it , as displayed in Pierre and in his cancellation of his ...
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... literary circles - journalistic critics , academic critics , editors , bibliographers , rare book dealers , publishers , and writers as diverse as Carl Van Vechten , Lawrence of Arabia , W. H. Auden , Malcolm Lowry , and Angus Wilson ...
... literary circles - journalistic critics , academic critics , editors , bibliographers , rare book dealers , publishers , and writers as diverse as Carl Van Vechten , Lawrence of Arabia , W. H. Auden , Malcolm Lowry , and Angus Wilson ...
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